Does Muhammad’s “settle and sue” prohibition—against legal malpractice plaintiffs from bringing a legal malpractice action thereafter settlement—prohibit a legal malpractice action upon an underlying action’s compromised settlement arising from attorney defendants’ legal defects, in the absence of fraud?

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Yes; even absent fraud, a diminished settlement succeeding an attorney’s legal defect giving rise does not Muhammad bar that legal malpractice claim.

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