A Pennsylvania law firm convinced a state court not to revive a legal malpractice lawsuit brought against it by beneficiaries of a will that the firm allegedly failed to finalize before the client died.
Darlene Vlahos of Vlahos Law Firm PC prepared a will for John Hauser in 2014, and then Hauser and his then-fiancée sought to revive the will in 2018. Vlahos failed to finish tasks involved with the will and, when Hauser died five weeks later, the 2014 will was probated.
The beneficiaries of the will filed suit against Vlahos and the firm for negligence-based malpractice, claiming that ...
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