GeoMetWatch v. Durham Jones & Pinegar — Prior Federal Defeat Bars Legal Malpractice Claims Under Issue Preclusion
The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for a law firm on all legal malpractice claims, holding that issue preclusion arising from prior Tenth Circuit litigation conclusively barred GMW’s lost-profits theories and that GMW’s lost business value theory failed for lack of nonspeculative causation evidence.