California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's suit for legal malpractice, claiming that the attorney's failure to timely perform his duties had deprived him of the majority of a testator's estate, trial court's grant of the attorney's motion for summary judgment on the ground that the attorney owed no duty to plaintiff, who was not his client and not the beneficiary of an executed estate plan, is affirmed as a prospective beneficiary of a will cannot maintain a cause of action for legal malpractice against the attorney who drafted the will but did not have it executed before the death of the testator.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2010
• Published 12/08/2010

Judges

• EPSTEIN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel C. Lapidus, Barry Z. Brodsky