Woman Files Appeals in Legal Malpractice Lawsuit

Mount Vernon, ILA woman is appealing a ruling in her legal malpractice lawsuit against the law firm that represented her in a case regarding her husband's asbestos-related death.

span itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="display:block">Madison County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Crowder let a number of attorneys named as defendants in the case out of the legal malpractice lawsuit, but plaintiff Judy Buckles is appealing those decisions, according to the Madison County Record.

In her original lawsuit, Buckles claimed that attorney John Simmons and her lawyers from the Hopkins Goldenberg law firm, which is now Goldenberg, Heller, Antognoli, Rowland and Short, did not properly handle her departed husband's asbestos claims.

Last year Simmons and his law firm were granted summary judgment and allowed out of the case. Buckles had asked Judge Crowder to vacate that ruling, but in March of that year the request was denied.

The suit was originally filed by Buckles in 2001, was later dropped, and then refiled five years later, reports the news source.

Buckles' legal malpractice lawsuit claims that she lost out on settlement money because of her attorneys' mishandling of the case.