29 Ohio App. 3d 261 - Vail v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. “It should not be the purpose of the law to discourage professional relationships. Where a lawyer makes a mistake in the representation of his or her client, no purpose is served by a policy of law that says, in effect, that the client should be penalized for permitting the attorney to correct his or her mistake rather than sue the attorney upon discovery of the mistake, thereby ending the relationship and the attorney’s opportunity to correct his or her error.... There are many errors that may be committed by a professional person. To hold that a client must hastily file a claim against an attorney for every error that can be made, in our judgment, serves no purpose. If the statute of limitations is tolled until the lawyer-client relationship terminates, both the client and the lawyer benefit from such a rule because the client has more time in which to bring his or her claim and the lawyer has an opportunity to correct an error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 503 F. Supp. 2d 887 - Thayer v. Fuller & Henry, Ltd.