An attorney for a Delaware County real estate partnership urged the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh last week to adopt the continuous representation rule in legal malpractice actions – a move that, he said, would preserve a client’s rights without jeopardizing the attorney-client relationship.
Counsel for the defendant countered that adoption of an extreme version of this rule would only harm attorney-client relationships, and that a more watered-down version would be unnecessary since current law already protects clients with potential malpractice claims who are persuaded by a lawyer’s assurances of success on appeal. Some justices during arguments in Glenbrook Leasing Co. v. Beausang seemed reluctant to adopt the continuous representation rule, which has been embraced by courts in at least 20 states.
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