Novack v. Newman

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Lon No-vack, from the grant of the motion of defendants, Leo M. Newman and Mark I. Bronson (attorneys), for summary judgment in a civil action for damages based upon legal malpractice. We reverse and remand.

This legal malpractice action arose as a result of an earlier medical malpractice case. Plaintiff retained defendants as his attorneys to represent him in a medical malpractice action based upon his physicians’ failure to properly diagnose his cancerous condition. Suit was filed and in due course came to trial. Before the trial…