District Court of Appeal of Florida

A judgment in favor of a client in a legal malpractice case is reversed where the malpractice action was initiated according to the terms of a settlement agreement between the client and its former adversaries in federal court, and the settlement agreement was the equivalent of an impermissible assignment of the legal malpractice claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2006
• Published 05/10/2006

Judges

• GROSS, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. Greene, Coral Springs, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James C. Cunningham, Jr. of Berger Singerman, P.A., Miami, for appellee.