{"id":171,"date":"2013-05-15T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","slug":"legal-malpractice-statute-of-limitations-triggered-when-client-knew-attorney-didnt-pursue-judgment-not-when-client-found-evidence-judgment-was-collectible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/legal-malpractice-statute-of-limitations-triggered-when-client-knew-attorney-didnt-pursue-judgment-not-when-client-found-evidence-judgment-was-collectible\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal malpractice statute of limitations triggered when client knew attorney didn\u2019t pursue judgment, not when client found evidence judgment was collectible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher J. Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph P. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/G045323.PDF\">Croucier v. Chavos, 207 Cal. App. 4th 1138, 144 Cal. Rptr. 3rd 180 (Cal. App. July 18, 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs suffered \u201cactual injury\u201d triggering legal malpractice one-year statute of limitations when they knew defendant attorney didn\u2019t competently pursue enforcement of a judgment, rather than when the plaintiffs found evidence that the judgment was collectible.  Defendant attorney had obtained a default judgment in favor of plaintiffs, but then left his firm and there was no substitution of attorney for a year and a half.  Statute of limitations began running when plaintiffs\u2019 new attorney substituted in the case and immediately began collection proceedings \u2013 not two months later when post-judgment proceedings indicated that the judgment was collectible.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher J. Graham and Joseph P. Kelly Croucier v. Chavos, 207 Cal. App. 4th 1138, 144 Cal. Rptr. 3rd 180 (Cal. App. July 18, 2012) Plaintiffs suffered \u201cactual injury\u201d triggering legal malpractice one-year statute of limitations when they knew defendant attorney didn\u2019t competently pursue enforcement of a judgment, rather than when the plaintiffs found [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}