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May 31, 2017

A Clean Break Nixed: Virginia’s Continuous Representation Rule Resurrects Legal Malpractice Claim Against Attorney

Author: Sandberg Phoenix

Attorneys who have withdrawn from representing a client, either at the client’s request or for other reasons, may experience a lingering fear of later being the subject of a legal malpractice claim In some states like Virginia, such a fear may be heightened if the “continuous representation rule” is found to apply. The recent case of Moonlight Enterprises, LLC v. Mroz, 2017 WL 1237947 (Va. Mar. 30, 2017), illustrates how this rule operates.