Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-5-581 (2026)
Applicability and Effect on Inconsistent Provisions of Law.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
This article applies to all actions against legal service providers based on acts or omissions accruing after April 12, 1988, and, as to such causes of action, shall supersede any inconsistent provision of law.
(Acts 1988, No. 88-262, p. 406, §12.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1994–2023 · leading case: Ex Parte Panell, 756 So. 2d 862 (Ala. 1999).
Ex Parte Panell, 756 So. 2d 862 (Ala. 1999). “Code 1975, § 6-5-571 through § 6-5-581, against Kent Henslee, an attorney who had represented Panell in a lawsuit arising out of a dispute concerning the operation of a business.”
Erica Rae Fox v. Harold V. Hughston III & Sheila Morgan (Ala. 2023). “Instead, we were interpreting a different provision that specified the date that ALSLA would be in force, § 6-5-581, Ala. Code 1975. The following was the totality of our analysis supporting adoption of the accrual rule: "[ALSLA] .”
McKinnon v. Romeo, 645 So. 2d 1388 (Ala. 1994). “Ala.Code 1975, § 6-5-581. Third, because the legislature measured the saving provision from the effective date (April 12, 1988), which provides a reasonable period of time, we hold that the legislature intended the LSLA to apply retrospectively.”
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