What is the effect of a legal malpractice action against a lawyer who errs?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bledstein v. Superior Court, 162 Cal.App.3d 152, 208 Cal.Rptr. 428 (Cal. App. 1984):
In practice, it probably matters little which statute controls on this issue. A legal malpractice action ordinarily does not accrue at the moment the lawyer errs. Instead it accrues only when the client "discovers" his lawyer acted negligently and begins to suffer "appreciable harm" from this negligence. (Bell v. Hummel (1982) 136 Cal.App.3d 1009, 1016-1017, 186 Cal.Rptr. 688).
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