Barnes v. Turner

Fletcher, Chief Justice.

The issue in this legal malpractice case is what duty attorney David Turner, Jr. owed his client, William Barnes, Jr., with respect to maintaining Barnes’s security interest that lapsed. The Court of Appeals held that Turner’s only duty was to inform Barnes that his security interest required renewal in five years.1 Because under that view the statute of limitations expired before Barnes filed his malpractice action, the Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision to grant Turner’s motion to dismiss. We conclude, however, that if Turner failed to inform Barnes…