In an example of the high-stakes, deadline-driven world of the law, a woman has sued four lawyers and a law firm, alleging that she lost her case because they filed it four days after the statute of limitations had run.
Plaintiff Lou Anne Perkins of Denton County claims that she hired the firm Walker Bright but that four lawyers there relied on the wrong statute in calculating the statute of limitations for her claim, and they filed the lawsuit too late. In the end, a court threw out her lawsuit after the underlying defendant argued that the statute of limitations had run.
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