Bank IV Wichita, National Ass'n v. Arn, Mullins, Unruh, Kuhn & Wilson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a borrower and lender are sufficiently adverse in loan transaction that lender’s attorney owed no duty to borrower plaintiff
• prohibiting legal malpractice claims when there is no intent for the third party to rely on the attorney for legal services
• noting “relationship between borrower and lender is usually recognized as * * * adversarial”
• defendant attorneys did not directly advise Bank or intend that Bank would rely on their legal services
• borrower could not assign his legal malpractice claim to his lending bank
• majority of courts have held that legal malpractice claims are not assignable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).