GREGORY v. HAWKINS

Record No. 951272.

468 S.E.2d 891 (1996)

C. Linwood GREGORY v. Mildred M. HAWKINS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Georgiadis (Thompson, Smithers, Newman & Wade, on briefs), for appellant.

(Sa'ad El-Amin, El-Amin & Crawford, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal of a judgment for attorney malpractice, the dispositive issue is whether the client proved that the attorney's conduct was a proximate cause of the client's loss. The issue arises from the following pertinent facts which are recited in the light most favorable to the client, the prevailing party at trial.

Mildred M. Hawkins (Hawkins) was the owner of a motel in New Kent County. In...

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