Nilson

I.

INTRODUCTION

Appellants Dan and Donna Nilson appeal from a judgment entered in favor of respondents Daniel M. White and White & Amundson APC (White & Amundson) on appellants’ complaint against respondents, and on White & Amundson’s cross-complaint against appellants. Appellants sued respondents over issues arising from respondents’ representation of appellants in an underlying dispute involving Dan Nilson’s family’s farming business. Although appellants initially alleged a number of claims of misconduct by respondents during the representation period, by the time of trial, appellants’ only remaining claims against respondents alleged malpractice and breach of fiduciary duties based on a stipulation entered into by respondents on appellants’ behalf regarding Dan Nilson’s mother’s decision to move forward with a nonjudicial foreclosure on a parcel of property that appellants believed belonged to them. Appellants asserted that respondents’ conduct in entering into the stipulation resulted in appellants’ loss of the property in the nonjudicial foreclosure. White & Amundson cross- complained against appellants, alleging that appellants continued to owe them hundreds of thousands…