of his wrongful conduct.” (citing U.S. Concrete Pipe Co. v. Bould, 437 So.2d 1061 (Fla. 1983))). But that is not what Ms. Herendeen seeks. She correctly observes that no public policy absolves Mandelbaum from the toll of the lawyers’ alleged malpractice. This makes sense. Punitive damages “operate as ‘private fines’ intended to punish the defendant and to deter future wrongdoing.” Engle v. Liggett Grp., Inc., 945 So.2d 1246, 1262 (Fla. 2006) (quoting Cooper Indus., Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Grp., Inc., 532 U.S. 424, 432, 121 S.Ct. 1678, 149 L.Ed.2d 674 (2001 , App. 1990) (same); Picadilly, Inc. v. Raikos, 555 N.E.2d 167, 169-70 (Ind. Ct. App. 1990) (same but client failed to prove essential elements of legal malpractice claim) (vacated on other grounds, 582 N.E.2d 338, 345 (Ind. 1991) (<HOLDING>)). If a lawyer is hired to represent someone in
holding that erisa does not preempt professional malpractice claims holding that there would be no exception to american rule on attorney fees for legal malpractice claims holding that plaintiffs could not sue attorneys for legal malpractice so long as underlying medical malpractice action out of which legal malpractice claim arose was still pending on appeal holding that legal malpractice claims are not assignable holding that a claim of legal malpractice under alabama law did not present a federal question