Callahan

Inge Realty Company, a California limited partnership, Susan V.I. Callahan, as trustee of the Robert E. Inge Children’s Trusts (Trust No. 1), Sophia Inge, as trustee of the Robert Inge Family Trust, Sophia Inge and Susan V.I. Callahan, as co-executors of the Estate of Robert E. Inge, and Sophia Inge, individually (collectively, Robert Inge family members) appeal from the judgment entered after the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Gibson, Dunn) in this legal malpractice action arising out of Gibson, Dunn’s drafting of Inge Realty Company’s limited partnership agreement dated October 20, 1988. The Robert Inge family members contend the trial court erred in concluding, as a matter of law, they had sustained “actual injury” at the time of execution of the partnership agreement and their legal malpractice action was thus time-barred. We reverse.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. The Creation of the Limited Partnership

Inge Realty Company was founded in 1955 by brothers Robert and Oliver Inge. It engaged in the business of buying and selling properties and renting properties it owned to tenants.

*561 In September 1988 Robert…