Duane Morris has settled a legal malpractice suit against it for an undisclosed amount, letting stand a Pennsylvania Superior Court ruling that legal malpractice damages in civil cases are not limited to the fees paid to an attorney.
The state Supreme Court had granted allocatur in Coleman v. Duane Morris in June, in an order limiting review to the issue of whether its 1993 ruling in Bailey v. Tucker limiting malpractice damages to fees paid to an attorney applies only in the criminal context or can be extended to civil cases.
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