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Attorney Malpractice Liability To Non-Clients In Washington: Is The New Modified Multi-Factor Balancing Test An Improvement?, Sheryl L.R. Miller
Attorney Malpractice Liability To Non-Clients In Washington: Is The New Modified Multi-Factor Balancing Test An Improvement?, Sheryl L.R. Miller
Washington Law Review
Most jurisdictions recognize a cause of action for legal malpractice against a non-client only where the attorney-client relationship is formed to benefit a third-party nonclient. This rule generally operates to preclude an attorney's potential liability to a client's adversary. Washington departed from the majority in 1992 in Bohn v. Cody, where the Washington Supreme Court found that an attorney did owe a duty to his client's adversary. Two years later, in Trask v. Butler, the supreme court modified Bohn's test for determining attorney malpractice liability to third parties to conform Washington's law with the majority of jurisdictions. …
Another Early Chapter: Attorney Malpractice And The Trial Within A Trial: Time For A Change, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 275 (1986), Donald G. Weiland
Another Early Chapter: Attorney Malpractice And The Trial Within A Trial: Time For A Change, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 275 (1986), Donald G. Weiland
UIC Law Review
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