Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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explicit requirements — the “necessity ... of private enforcement” of the public interest. Awarding attorney fees for litigation when those rights could have been vindicated by reasonable efforts short of litigation does not advance that objective and encourages lawsuits that are more opportunistic than authentically for the public good. Lengthy prelitigation negotiations are not required ... but a plaintiff must at least notify the defendant of its grievances and proposed remedies and give the defendant the opportunity to meet its demands within a reasonable time. What constitutes a “reasonable” time will depend on the context. Id. at 577, 21 Cal.Rptr.3d 331, 101 P.3d 140; see also Tipton-Whittingham v. City of Los Angeles, 34 Cal.4th 604, 608, 21 Cal.Rptr.3d 371, 101 P.3d 174 (2004) ; Grimsley v. Bd. of Supervisors, 169
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that the defendant was only permitted to recover attorney fees as an item of special damages with respect to the underlying action in which the defendant was sued and was not permitted to recover attorney fees incurred in the malpractice portion of the case as damages
B. holding that to recover private attorney general fees a plaintiff must reasonably attempt to settle before litigation
C. holding private attorney general fees will not be awarded unless the plaintiff first attempts to resolve the matter without litigation and attendant expense
D. holding that a successful plaintiff in a legal malpractice action may recover initial fees a plaintiff pays or agrees to pay an attorney for legal services that were negligently performed and corrective fees incurred by the plaintiff for work performed to correct the problem caused by the negligent lawyer but not litigation fees which are legal fees paid by the plaintiff to prosecute the malpractice action against the offending lawyer
E. recognizing the general rule that a claimant in a malicious prosecution or abuse of process action can recover attorney fees incurred in defending against the prior wrongful litigation but cannot recover attorney fees incurred in bringing the malicious prosecution or abuse of process action itself and applying the same rule where the abuse of process claim is brought as a counterclaim to wrongful litigation rather than as a later separate action
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.