It’s been a decade and a half since the New Jersey Supreme Court proclaimed that disgruntled clients need not join malpractice claims against their lawyers in related litigation, but once in a while, the entire controversy doctrine long thought dead still rears its head.

Fortunately for one former law client, and maybe this time for all others, the Appellate Division has rectified the problem in a published ruling that underscores the doctrine’s obsolescence.

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