Admiral Merchants Motor Freight, Inc. v. O'Connor & Hannan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the existence of an attorney-client relationship is “usually a question of fact dependent upon the communications and circumstances”
• stating that under a tort theory, “an attorney-client relation ship is created whenever an individual seeks and receives legal advice from an attorney in circumstances in which a reasonable person would rely on such advice”
• involving a situation when a defendant was found liable because certain defenses were, in the view of the defendant, negligently forfeited
• reversing a grant of summary judgment on a legal-malpractice claim in part because there were genuine issues of material fact and because “the question of whether an attorney-client relationship existed” under a third-party beneficiary theory “should be determined by the fact finder”
• “[A]n intended third-party beneficiary may bring an action for legal malpractice in those situations when the client’s sole purpose is to benefit the third party directly, and the attorney’s negligent act caused the beneficiary to suffer a loss.”
• law firm rendered legal advice directly to plaintiffs vice president

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).