Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-5-573 (2026)
Creation of One Form of Action Against Legal Service Providers.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
There shall be only one form and cause of action against legal service providers in courts in the State of Alabama and it shall be known as the legal service liability action and shall have the meaning as defined herein.
(Acts 1988, No. 88-262, p. 406, §4.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 23
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1994–2026 · leading case: Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Jones, Morrison & Womack, P.C., 42 So. 3d 667 (Ala. 2010).
Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Jones, Morrison & Womack, P.C., 42 So. 3d 667 (Ala. 2010). “See § 6-5-573, Ala.Code 1975: "There shall be only one form and cause of action against legal service providers in courts in the State of Alabama and it shall be known as the legal service liability action and shall have the meaning as defined herein.”
Free v. Lasseter, 31 So. 3d 85 (Ala. 2009). “Indeed, the LSLA requires that Free’s common-law claims be recast, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 6-5-573, as a “legal service liability action.”
Kachler v. Taylor, 849 F. Supp. 1503 (M.D. Ala. 1994). “1975 Ala.Code § 6-5-573. 8 Although subsection (b) to § 6-5-574 of the Act provides that legal services liability actions are subject to the tolling provisions of § 6-2-3, the subsection further states that “no action shall be commenced more than four years after the act,…”
Sessions v. Espy, 854 So. 2d 515 (Ala. 2003). “" § 6-5-573, Ala.Code 1975. The term "legal service provider" is defined to mean: "Anyone licensed to practice law by the State of Alabama or engaged in the practice of law in the State of Alabama.”
Traywick v. Kidd, 142 So. 3d 1189 (Ala. Civ. App. 2013). “§ 6-5-573 (“There shall be only one form and cause of action against legal service providers in courts in the State of Alabama.”
Coilplus-Alabama, Inc. v. Vann, 53 So. 3d 898 (Ala. 2010). “§ 6-5-573, Ala.Code 1975. Section 6-5-572, Ala.”
Line v. Ventura, 38 So. 3d 1 (Ala. 2009). “Code 1975, § 6-5-573, 727 So.2d at 802 , and then set out the definitions of “legal service liability action” and “legal service provider” as provided in Ala.”
Drew v. Quest Diagnostics, 992 F. Supp. 2d 1177 (N.D. Ala. 2014). “The AMLA contains no section similar to that found in § 6-5-573, a part of the Alabama Legal Services Liability Act, which creates "only one form and cause of action .”
Bryant v. Robledo, 938 So. 2d 413 (Ala. Civ. App. 2005). “In my opinion, the absence of evidence of an attorney-client relationship between the plaintiffs and the defendant James Bryant was fatal to the plaintiffs' fraud claim as pleaded by the plaintiffs.”
Borden v. Clement, 261 B.R. 275 (N.D. Ala. 2001). “CODE § 6-5-573. Claims for a lawyer’s breach of fiduciary duty, violations of the lawyer’s oath, violations of the rules of professional conduct, and wantonness in violation of a lawyer’s duties are all subsumed in a legal malpractice action.”
Yarbrough v. Eversole, 227 So. 3d 1192 (Ala. 2017). “”§ 6-5-573, Aa. Code 1975. “A legal services liability action embraces any form of action in which a litigant may seek legal redress for a wrong or an injury and every legal theory of recovery, whether common law or statutory, available to a litigant in a court in the State of…”
Cockrell v. Pruitt, 214 So. 3d 324 (Ala. 2016). “) Section 6-5-573, AIa.Code 1975, provides that “[t]here shall be only one form *334 and cause of action against legal service providers in courts in the State of Alabama and it shall be known as the legal service liability action and shall have the meaning as defined herein.”
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