Samuels

Filed 11/24/21 Samuels v. Hamrick & Evans CA1/

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

SETH SAMUELS et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,

A158688, A158878

v. HAMRICK & EVANS, LLP et al., (City & County of San Francisco Super. Ct. No. CGC-13-534626) Defendants and Appellants.

In 2013, Seth Samuels, his brothers, and their companies (plaintiffs) filed this malpractice action against their former attorneys, Kenneth Greene, Raymond Hamrick, and the law firm of Hamrick & Evans (defendants). Plaintiffs sought damages for defendants’ negligent prosecution of an action to collect a $1.8 million judgment that plaintiffs had obtained against Pinewave Construction, Inc. in 2005. Like the parties, we refer to this judgment debtor as PW1 in order to distinguish…