Kopit

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff-appellant Patricia Kopit (“Kopit”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendants, her former lawyers, in this Nevada common law action for legal malpractice and related claims. Kopit has filed a series of products liability claims against the manufacturers of her breast implants. The last of these, filed in California state court, was dismissed in March 2000. Kopit’s main allegation here is that the defendants proximately caused this dismissal by their negligence in their representation of Kopit in a prior products liability action in Nevada state court. According to Kopit, her lawyers dismissed her Nevada case pursuant to a stipulation that they led her to believe would preserve her ability to refile timely in California by tolling the statute of limitations during the pendency of the Nevada action. The stipulation did not in fact do this, and Kopit did not receive a copy of the stipulation until after her Nevada case had been dismissed. When she attempted to refile in California, her suit was dismissed based on the statute of limitations.

Finding Kopit’s current action untimely under the Nevada statute of limitations for legal…