Taylor v. Stevenson

Bert Taylor and Taylor Smith, the defendants in a legal malpractice action, are pursuing a Rule 5, Ala.R.App.P., permissive interlocutory appeal from the denial of their motion to dismiss or for summary judgment. We will call these defendants-appellants "the lawyers." Because Vallarie D. Stevenson, the plaintiff-appellee before us, was the lawyers' client in her first lawsuit but is their antagonist in this second one, we will call her by her name, Stevenson. The lawyers' ground for dismissal or summary judgment is the bar of the legal malpractice statute of limitations, § 6-5-574, Ala. Code…