Thomas v. Bethea

WILNER, Judge.

In Prande v. Bell, 105 Md.App. 636, 656, 660 A.2d 1055, 1065 (1995), the Court of Special Appeals held that an attorney may be liable for professional malpractice for recommending that a client’s case be, or not be, settled on particular terms if “the attorney’s recommendation in regard to settlement was one that no reasonable attorney, having undertaken a reasonable investigation into the facts and law as would be appropriate under the circumstances, and -with knowledge of the same facts, would have made.” Applying Prande v. Bell, the appellate court in this case reversed a…