The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a plaintiff may continue with a malpractice lawsuit against her former attorneys over a settlement she later found unacceptable.

But the decision was a retrained one, in that the case invited an opportunity for the justices to undo a 30-year precedent barring clients from suing their lawyers over bad settlements. They held back from addressing the merits of the rule at all.

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