Snow, Nuffer, Engstrom & Drake v. Tanasse

DURHAM, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 Defendant James Tanasse seeks review of a court of appeals’ decision upholding .the dismissal of his motion to set aside an execution sale of his legal malpractice cause of action against plaintiff law firm. In upholding the trial court’s dismissal, the court of appeals held that (a) it was unnecessary to determine whether a legal malpractice claim is assignable in Utah; (b) a legal malpractice cause of action is not beyond the reach of an involuntary transfer such as a judicially sanctioned execution sale; and (c) it is not against public policy in the…