Legal Opinion
Clemente v. Freshman
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 21, 2000No. 3D99-2673PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreen, J.
Reynel Clemente appeals the dismissal, with prejudice, of his legal malpractice action against his former legal counsel, ap-pellees, Lawrence N. Freshman, Esq. and Freshman, Freshman & Traitz, P.A. (collectively “Freshman firm”). The basis of the lower court’s dismissal was that this action was time barred by the two year statute of limitation period found in section 95.11(4)(a), Fla. Stat. (1991). We reverse and remand for the following reasons.
According to the allegations of the complaint which we accept as true, on October 7, 1990, Reynel Clemente was severely injured while a passenger on…
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