A victim of legal malpractice recently lost her case in Hartford Superior Court because she did not prove that her lawyer’s professional negligence caused her harm. The plaintiff was injured when she tripped and fell and brought suit against a local municipality alleging that her accident was caused by a defect in the road which caused her to trip. Her case against the municipality was thrown out of court, however, because her personal injury lawyer made a procedural mistake, and failed to provide the required written notice of the claim to the municipality. As a result, the plaintiff hired another attorney and filed a legal malpractice law suit against her first lawyer. On February 21, 2020, the plaintiff lost her legal malpractice case when the Hartford Superior Court ruled that, although the plaintiff shown that her prior lawyer had committed malpractice, the plaintiff did not prove that she would have won her case against the municipality. The plaintiff’s legal malpractice lawyer argued that he did not need to show that the plaintiff would have won her case against the municipality, but merely that the plaintiff lost the opportunity to pursue her case against the municipality because of her first lawyer’s malpractice. However, as the court said in dismissing the legal malpractice case, “that is not the law.” Victims of legal malpractice are reminded that when they get to trial, they and their new counsel must be ready to prove not only legal malpractice, but also to prove that they would have prevailed in the underlying case if not for the legal malpractice.