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PRSRT STD Riverside US POSTAGE County LAWYER PAID PERMIT #1054 Riverside County Bar Association RIVERSIDE, CA 4129 Main St., Ste. 100, Riverside, CA 92501 RCBA 951-682-1015 LRS 951-682-7520 April 2017 • Volume 67 Number 4 MAGAZINE www.riversidecountybar.com [email protected] Judge Robert Timlin 1932-2017 The Official Publication of the Riverside County Bar Association Publications Committee Sophia Choi Robyn Lewis Julianna Crawford Jennifer Lynch Donald Cripe Juanita Mantz Melissa Cushman Christopher Marin DW Duke Chad Morgan CONTENTS Abram Feuerstein Charlene Nelson Stefanie Field Dawn Saenz Alexandra Fong Nesa Targhibi Betty Fracisco Mohammad Tehrani Amy Guldner Jamie Wrage Boyd Jensen Lisa Yang Columns: Editor ............................................. Jacqueline Carey-Wilson Copy Editors ..................... Yoginee Braslaw & Juanita Mantz 3 ...................President’s Message by Jean-Simon Serrano Design and Production ........................ 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The material printed in the Riverside Lawyer does not necessarily reflect the opin ions of the RCBA, the editorial staff, the Publication Committee, or other columnists. Legal issues are not discussed for the purpose of answering spe cif ic questions. Independent research of all issues is strongly encouraged. 2 Riverside Lawyer, April 2017 the wrongful act or omission when such facts are known to the attorney, except that this subdivision shall toll only the four-year limitation.”1 Looking at subsection (2) of the statute, the question remains: When does representation end? The Third Appellate District recent- ly attempted to answer this question. In Flake v. Neumiller & Beardslee (2017) ___Cal.Rptr.3d___, 2017 WL839822 (Flake) for- mer counsel moved to withdraw from representing his client, indi- cating in his declaration that new counsel had already taken over the handling of the case. The motion to be relieved as counsel was filed on November 25, 2009, was unopposed, and was granted on by Jean-Simon Serrano January 7, 2010. On January 6, 2011, the client sued former counsel for malpractice – more than one year after the motion to withdraw When does representation of a client was made but less than one year after the motion was granted. end? Does it end with your client being dis- Former counsel moved for summary judgment, arguing the suit missed from the lawsuit? Does it end when was filed more than one year after any objectively reasonable person your client receives their settlement check would have believed they were still represented by counsel and thus or when you receive your last check for fees? it was time-barred by section 340.6. Plaintiff (former client) argued What about for purposes of malpractice? that representation continues until the agreed-upon tasks or events The statute of limitations for legal mal- have occurred, the client consents to termination, or the court practice is set out in Code of Civil Procedure grants the motion for withdrawal. section 340.6. That section, pertinent to The trial court held that the former client (Flake) had no this discussion, states: objectively reasonable expectation that his former attorney would continue to perform legal services after Flake was served with the “An action against an attor- motion to withdraw. This was especially true because the declara- ney for a wrongful act or omission, tion accompanying the motion indicated that a new attorney had other than for actual fraud, arising taken over representation on Flake’s file. Flake’s malpractice action in the performance of professional was deemed untimely. services shall be commenced within On appeal, the appellate court recognized that “the end of an one year after the plaintiff discovers, attorney-client relationship is not always signaled by a bright line.”2 or through