A state appellate court on Monday said a plaintiff missed her chance to sue California-based firm Hanson Bridgett over “a series of investments gone wrong.”

The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a 2015 trial court ruling by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David Brown that Sharon Scofield’s 2012 suit alleging legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and financial elder abuse was time-barred by a one-year statute of limitations.