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WILLIAMS v. JOYNES

Record No. 080751.

677 S.E.2d 261 (2009)

Leo WILLIAMS v. Louis N. JOYNES, II, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 4, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Perez (Shuttleworth, Ruloff, Swain, Haddad & Morecock, on briefs), for appellant.

Matthew A. Ranck (Eccleston and Wolf, on brief), Hanover, Md, for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.

OPINION BY Justice BARBARA MILANO KEENAN.

In this legal malpractice action, we consider whether the circuit court erred in granting summary judgment for the defendant attorneys. The circuit court held that the plaintiff's failure to file a personal injury action in a foreign jurisdiction was a superseding event, which severed the link of proximate causation between the defendants' failure to timely file a personal injury action in Virginia and the plaintiff's loss...

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