Appeals Court affirms summary judgment for lawyers The Appeals Court has ruled in an unpublished decision that a legal malpractice action was time-barred because while the client sued his former attorneys within three years of the end of their representation, it was more than three years after the events occurred that he claimed caused him
Where summary judgment was awarded to defendant attorneys in a malpractice action, that judgment should be upheld because (1) the judge properly determined that the plaintiff's breach of contract claim was subject to the three-year statute of limitations for malpractice actions and (2) the defendants' allegedly negligent preparation of a motion for a new trial