Vansickle v. Kohout

MeGRAW, Justice:

In this case, the Court considers two certified questions concerning legal malpractice actions. The lower court asks how a statute of limitations should be applied in eases where an injured client retains a second lawyer in an attempt to mitigate the harm caused by the first lawyer’s malpractice. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that an injured client’s cause of action accrues at the time of the legal malpractice, or its discovery, and that the injured client’s subsequent efforts with new counsel to mitigate the harm do not toll the running of the statute of…