Ayyildiz v. Kidd

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an “attorney’s liability for damages generally is only to his client following some dereliction of duty to the client”
• attorney not liable to third person in professional negligence case who was not his client
• physician-defendant in a frivolous malpractice suit could not sue plaintiff’s attorney for negligence in bringing suit because plaintiff’s attorney owed no duty to the defendant; court expressly declined to abrogate the privity requirement
• “[T]he ethical considerations contained in the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility are merely aspirational and, as such, they fail to supply a cause of action to private litigants.”
• “the ethical considerations contained in the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility are merely aspirational and, as such, they fail to supply a cause of action to private litigants”
• “[T]he ethical considerations contained in the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility are merely aspirational and, as such, they fail to supply a cause of action to private litigants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).