Colodny, Fass & Talenfeld, P.A. v. Bal Bay Realty, Ltd.

WELLS, Judge.

Colodny, Fass & Talenfeld, P.A. and Michael J. Colodny seek certiorari review of the lower court’s sua sponte order vacating a stay in a legal malpractice action. Finding that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law, we grant certiorari and quash the order.

Respondent, Bal Bay Realty, Ltd., instituted the present legal malpractice action in April 2001. Therein, it alleged that Petitioners committed legal malpractice in connection with Petitioners’ representation of Respondent in a matter currently pending in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial…