{"id":175,"date":"2013-05-15T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","slug":"michigan-legal-malpractice-claim-barred-by-statute-of-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/michigan-legal-malpractice-claim-barred-by-statute-of-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan legal malpractice claim barred by statute of limitations"},"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:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12167294275454211008&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Ruff v. Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C., Case No. 11-CV-11110 (E.D. Mi. Sept. 27, 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defendant law firm\u2019s summary judgment motion granted based on statute of limitations.  \u201cUnder Michigan law, a legal malpractice claim must be brought within two years of the date the attorney ceases to serve the client or within six months of when the client discovered or should have discovered the claim, whichever is later\u201d and \u201c[a] claim for professional malpractice accrues \u2018at the time [the professional] discontinues serving the plaintiff in a professional or pseudoprofessional capacity as to the matters out of which the claim for malpractice arose.\u201d Here, plaintiff sued firm on November 10, 2010.  The last substantive services provided by the firm were in April 2008\u2014more than two years before suit was filed and, thus, plaintiff\u2019s claim was time-barred.  Defendant\u2019s letter on November 10, 2008 confirming the end of the attorney-client relationship with plaintiff didn\u2019t toll the statute of limitations when the last substantive services were provided in April 2008.<\/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 Ruff v. Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C., Case No. 11-CV-11110 (E.D. Mi. Sept. 27, 2012) Defendant law firm\u2019s summary judgment motion granted based on statute of limitations. \u201cUnder Michigan law, a legal malpractice claim must be brought within two years of the date the attorney ceases to [&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\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}