Higgins v. Thurber

The Appellate Division concluded that this legal malpractice action was not “precluded by the disposition of earlier lawsuits or otherwise barred.” Higgins v. Thurber, 413 N.J.Super. 1, 5, 992 A.2d 50 (App.Div.), certif. granted, 203 N.J. 438, 3 A.3d 1227 (2010). In reversing the grant of summary judgment to defendants, the panel specifically noted that although a potential claim sounding in legal malpractice may have been raised in a previous Bergen County probate proceeding in which defendant Mary Thurber intervened on the cusp of a firm trial date, the panel was unable to conclude that…