Boyle v. Odette

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court’s order granting defendant Odette’s motion for summary disposition in this legal malpractice case, as well as from the trial court’s order denying plaintiff’s motion for rehearing. In particular, plaintiff claims that she should have been allowed to amend her complaint to allege that defendant Odette committed legal malpractice when he failed to timely file a suit on plaintiff’s behalf against James W. McKay, on the basis that McKay knowingly furnished alcoholic beverages to then nineteen-year-old Kirk Gildner, who subsequent to the…