A federal judge in Philadelphia has allowed legal malpractice claims to survive a motion to dismiss, weighing in on an issue over which courts in the Third Circuit have been split.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hasn’t declared whether or not its precedent limiting damages in legal malpractice claims that are based on a breach of contract theory to the amount that the client actually paid extends to civil actions.
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