Atkinson v. Haug

How courts have described this case

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

• “Appellant’s subjective belief an attorney/client relationship existed between [the appellant] and [Attorney] Haug is an insufficient basis upon which to find there existed a genuine issue of material fact precluding summary judgment.”
• “Absent an express contract, an implied attorney/client relationship will be found if 1
• “[W]here an agent acts in his own interest and commits a fraud for his own benefit ... the principal ... will not be held liable for the agent’s tortious act.”
• “Before a defendant law firm can be held liable for the tortious or negligent conduct of one of its attorneys, it must be established the attorney/employee was acting within the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).