Legal Opinion

Bowen v. Arnold

Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Decided January 21, 1986No. C8-85-1058PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

This appeal is from an order denying a new trial in a legal malpractice action. The jury found that lawyer David Arnold had not been negligent in representing appellant Julie Spande in a marital dissolution proceeding. We affirm.

FACTS

In early September 1979 Julie Bowen Spande went to the Princeton, Minnesota, office of attorney David Arnold to discuss the possible dissolution of her 11-year marriage to Ronald Bowen. Arnold had been in the general practice of law for approximately ten years. A substantial amount of his early legal work involved family law, but by 1979 it…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Sandhofer v. Abbott-Northwestern HospitalSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1979
  2. City of Mounds View v. WalijarviSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1978
  3. Lhotka v. LarsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
  4. Kellett v. WasnieSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1962
  5. Van Tassel v. HillernsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976

3Cited by6 opinions

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  4. Clark v. RoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
  5. Pontiac School District v. Miller, Canfield, Paddock & StoneMichigan Court of Appeals · 1997

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