Adequacy of Settlement • Meritorious Litigation • Absence of Specific Allegations of Fraud • Advice Regarding Principles of Law
McGuire v. Russo, PICS Case No. 16-1482 (Pa. Super. Nov. 22, 2016) (memorandum) Ford Elliott, J. (15 pages).
Appellant’s legal malpractice claim regarding her settlement of underlying employment discrimination litigation failed where she alleged, not that her attorneys failed to properly plead all her claims or exhaust all her administrative remedies, but hat she was nowdissatisfid withher settlement and believed that more competent counsel would have ben able to get her “a better deal,” thus her claim was barred as being an attack on the adequacy of her settlement. Order of the trial court affirmed.
