Legal Opinion
Villanueva v. First American Title Insurance
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 18, 2013No. S12G0484PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Benham, Justice.
We granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by appellants Derick Villanueva and The Villanueva Law Firm, LLC following the decision of the Court of Appeals in Villanueva v. First American Title Ins. Co., 313 Ga. App. 164 (721 SE2d 150) (2011). In granting the petition, we expressed interest in the Court of Appeals’s holding in Division 2 of its opinion that legal malpractice claims are not per se unassignable. After studying the issue, we agree with the Court of Appeals that legal malpractice claims are not per se unassignable.
In May 2007, appellant Villanueva acted…
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