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VINER v. SWEET

No. B138149.

112 Cal.Rptr.2d 426 (2001)

92 Cal.App.4th 730

Michael VINER et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Charles A. SWEET et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

Review Granted December 19, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Dennis C. Brown, Mark B. Helm, Allison B. Stein, Steven W. Hawkins, Los Angeles; Kester & Isenberg and Charles F. Kester, Woodland Hills, for Defendants and Appellants.

Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, Patricia L. Glaser and Peter C. Sheridan, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Certified for Partial Publication.*

JOHNSON, J.

In this lawsuit for legal malpractice arising from advice relating to a business transaction, the trial court refused to require proof of a "case within a case" as generally would be required in a malpractice action arising in the context of litigation. Instead the court applied criteria traditionally used in negligence actions to the questions of causation and damages. This meant...

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