Roth v. Rosa Bros., Inc.

This is an appeal by the defendant Burnett Roth from an adverse final judgment entered against him in a legal malpractice action after a jury trial. The central contention raised on appeal is that no actionable legal negligence was established below against the defendant and that, accordingly, the defendant was entitled to a summary judgment and directed verdict in his favor. We entirely agree and reverse the final judgment under review based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

The gravamen of the plaintiff Rosa Bros., Inc.’s legal malpractice claim against the defendant Roth was…