Bauer v. Ferriby & Houston, PC

This legal malpractice case presents the question whether an attorney’s brief revisitation of an otherwise closed case in order to investigate and correct an alleged error attendant to the earlier representation has the effect of extending the previous representation for purposes of identifying when the applicable period of limitation for a malpractice action begins to run, MCL 600.5805(4); MSA 27A.5805(4). The trial court held that in this case it did not. Plaintiff appeals as of right. We affirm.

Plaintiff engaged defendant pursuant to plaintiff’s wish to redeem a worker’s compensation…