LYONS v. NUTT


436 Mass. 244 (2002)

DAMON LYONS, trustee, v. ROBERT L. NUTT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

March 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy H. Sibbison for the plaintiff.

Richard W. Renehan (David S. Friedman with him) for the defendants.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


SPINA, J.

On July 31, 1998, Damon Lyons filed a complaint alleging legal malpractice against five partners and a former associate of the law firm Ropes & Gray. Acting on the defendants' motion for summary judgment, a judge in the Superior Court concluded that the complaint should have been filed by October, 1991, and therefore was barred by the three-year statute of limitations applicable to legal malpractice cases, G. L. c. 260,

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