Soler v. Evans

Francis E. Sweeney, Sr., J.

Appellant Susan Soler, along with her mother and brother, inherited sizable real estate investments when her father died in 1982. The three family members began a partnership in 1983 that was managed by Soler’s brother. In 1988, appellant began to suspect that her brother was misappropriating partnership assets, so she retained attorney Robert St. Clair, appellee, to seek an accounting and conduct an audit of the partnership. When Soler’s mother died a few months later, leaving Soler’s brother as the executor of the estate, Soler enlisted St. Clair and his firm to…