Supreme Court of New Jersey

Circle Chevrolet Company, a New Jersey Corporation, and Thomas J. Defelice, Sr., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Giordano…

August 1, 1995142 N.J. 280

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed that the entire controversy doctrine bars a client’s legal‑malpractice claim against an attorney who is or was representing the client in the underlying transaction, holding that the malpractice claim accrued when the client learned of the attorney’s error in March 1988.