Anne P. Hendry v. Francis J. Pelland and Sadur, Pelland & Rubinstein, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that plaintiffs only needed to produce evidence of defendant’s violation of their duty of loyalty to support a claim for a violation of common law fiduciary duty
• observing that a plaintiff seeking compensatory damages must show injuries that were proximately caused by the breach of fiduciary duty
• discussing expert testimony that defendant had violated D.C. disciplinary rule in breach of fiduciary duty case
• discussing use of malpractice claims “as a defense to [a] counterclaim”
• “When evidence of such an ethical violation exists, an attorney is deemed to have breached his fiduciary duty of loyalty.”
• “Forfeiture of legal fees .... deters attorney misconduct, a goal worth furthering regardless of whether a particular client has been harmed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).