United Community Church v. Garcin

Opinion

VOGEL, J.

Properly conceived and executed, motions for summary adjudication of issues encourage settlement, reduce trial time, save money for the *330parties and preserve limited judicial resources. Ill-conceived and improperly executed motions for summary adjudication have just the opposite effect— they waste time and money and, almost as certainly as night follows day, result in reversals and further litigation. This case presents a paradigm of the latter form of motion and we therefore reverse a judgment predicated on an earlier order adjudicating three issues in a legal malpractice…