Bob MacKenzie, Sybil Newton, Warren Butler, and Clayton Bromberg obtained a ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court affirming the trial court’s granting of a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of their clients in a legal malpractice action. This legal malpractice case arose from an underlying medical malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that the defendants missed the statute of limitations and fraudulently concealed the existence of a potential legal malpractice action. The trial court granted defendants’ dispositive motions, and the Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed, holding that the plaintiff’s legal malpractice claim was barred by the statute of limitations and that the fraudulent concealment claim failed as a matter of law because the underlying medical malpractice claim was still viable at the time the defendants withdrew from the case.
