Rallis

Plaintiff Rallie P. Rallis sued defendants Ralph Cassady, Cassady Corporation, Cassady & Klein, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP (Morgan Lewis), Hahn & Cazier, Hahn, Cazier & Smaltz, and Davis Wright Tremaine (Davis Wright) for legal malpractice in January 1995. Rallis seeks reversal of the summary judgments granted in favor of each of these defendants. The trial court was persuaded that Rallis had sustained "actual injury" more than one year prior to the date when he filed this action and therefore his claims were barred by the statute of limitations. In reaching that result, the trial court rejected Rallis's argument that the running of the statute had been tolled by the defendants' continued representation of Rallis in certain Florida litigation. It determined that the defendants had only represented corporations founded by Rallis in which he was an officer, director, and shareholder, but had not represented him personally.

We conclude that triable issues of fact exist as to the running of the statute of limitations, as to some of the claims asserted against some of the defendants. Because we conclude that Rallis suffered an "actual injury" from the transactional…