BALL v. BIRCH, HORTON, BITTNER AND CHEROT

No. S-10015.

58 P.3d 481 (2002)

Gerald BALL, Albert Newton Ball, and Albert Ball, Jr., Appellants, v. BIRCH, HORTON, BITTNER AND CHEROT, a professional corporation, and Hal R. Horton, individually, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied December 10, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Eldridge Hicks, Hicks, Boyd, Chandler & Falconer, Anchorage, for Appellants.

Patrick B. Gilmore, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Anchorage, for Appellees.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, EASTAUGH, BRYNER, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A law firm's clients sued the firm. They claimed, among other things, that the firm was negligent in negotiating a commercial transaction and preparing transactional documents. The law firm moved for complete summary judgment; it submitted in support an expert's report that addressed only the document-preparation claim. When the plaintiffs repeatedly failed to produce expert opinions to oppose the...

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