{"id":173,"date":"2013-05-15T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","slug":"transactional-legal-malpractice-claim-fails-for-lack-of-proof-of-proximate-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/transactional-legal-malpractice-claim-fails-for-lack-of-proof-of-proximate-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Transactional legal malpractice claim fails for lack of proof of proximate cause"},"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:\/\/docs.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/district-courts\/new-hampshire\/nhdce\/1:2010cv00286\/35525\/129\/0.pdf?1345904632\">Elmo v. Callahan, 2012 WL 3669010 (D. N.H Aug. 24, 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>District court granted summary judgment to defendant attorney in transactional legal malpractice claim because plaintiffs failed to prove proximate cause. Defendant attorney represented both buyer and sellers of a business.  Attorney stood to make over $200,000 if the sale went through, while sellers received cash, subordinated debt, and other equity from buyer.  The sale went through but buyer went under soon after.  Plaintiffs \u2013 the sellers that received subordinated debt and equity in buyer \u2013 sued for legal malpractice.  Plaintiffs failed to prove proximate cause because they \u201cpresented no evidence as to why [the purchasing company] collapsed, let alone any evidence that [the purchasing company\u2019s] collapse or the reasons for it should have been foreseeable to [the attorney].&#8221;<\/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 Elmo v. Callahan, 2012 WL 3669010 (D. N.H Aug. 24, 2012) District court granted summary judgment to defendant attorney in transactional legal malpractice claim because plaintiffs failed to prove proximate cause. Defendant attorney represented both buyer and sellers of a business. Attorney stood to make over $200,000 [&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\/173"}],"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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}