Environmental Liners, Inc. v. Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite

OPINION

FIDEL, Presiding Judge.

This legal malpractice case arises from the allegedly untimely filing of a mining claim. On May 4, 1989, Kelly McCabe, corporate counsel for Environmental Liners, Inc. (“Plaintiff’), asked attorney James Wees of the law firm of Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite (“Defendant”) to file a mining lien on Plaintiffs behalf. The lien was intended to secure payment for materials and services supplied by Plaintiff to Cowichan Resources, Inc. (“Cowichan”), the lessee and operator of a Tombstone, Arizona, gold mine. Plaintiff worked on the mine on February 8,1989, but did minor…