Sufficiency of Evidence – Malpractice

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: David MacLeish, et al. v. Boardman & Clark LLP, et al.

Case No.: 2016AP2491

Officials: Sherman, Blanchard and Kloppenburg, JJ

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence – Malpractice

David MacLeish, Hayden MacLeish, Kay MacLeish, and Robin MacLeish (collectively, the MacLeish children) appeal a summary judgment dismissing their legal malpractice action against Boardman & Clark, LLP, Quale Hartman, S.C., Continental Casualty Company, and OneBeacon Insurance Company (collectively, the Respondents). The MacLeish children alleged in their complaint that Attorney Forrest Hartmann, an attorney formerly associated with Boardman & Clark, was negligent in the manner in which he administered the estate of their father, Charles MacLeish, in 1984. The circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of the Respondents on the ground that the summary judgment evidence does not show that the MacLeish children may proceed with this legal malpractice action against the Respondents. We affirm.

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