Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

Kloian v. Schwartz

Michigan Court of Appeals

Decided December 27, 2006No. Docket 267033Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partWhite, J.

I respectfully dissent from the majority’s affirmance of the circuit court’s grant of summary disposition of the legal malpractice claim regarding the Wayne County case. In all other respects, I concur.

*246The period of limitations governing a legal malpractice action is two years. MCL 600.5805(6). A legal malpractice claim accrues at the time that an attorney discontinues serving a client with respect to matters out of which the claim for malpractice arose:

[A] claim based on the malpractice of a person who is, or holds himself or herself out to be, a member of a state licensed profession accrues…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Grievance Administrator v. FiegerMichigan Supreme Court · 2006
  2. Badalamenti v. William Beaumont Hospital-TroyMichigan Court of Appeals · 1999
  3. Maddox v. BurlingameMichigan Court of Appeals · 1994
  4. Pusakulich v. City of IronwoodMichigan Court of Appeals · 2001
  5. Stroud v. WardMichigan Court of Appeals · 1988

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