California Court of Appeal

Where defending an appeal would have been required even absent alleged legal malpractice, no "actual injury" is suffered until the court of appeals reversed the lower court judgment, for purposes of the statute of limitations; recovery of lost punitive damages is available in a legal malpractice action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2002
• Published 05/31/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Esner & Chang and Stuart B. Esner, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sims & Sprowl, Wayne R. Sims, Costa Mesa, and Selim Mounedji for Defendants and Respondents.