· 11/6/1985
Bowman v. John Doe
Citations
- 704 P.2d 140
- 104 Wash. 2d 181
How courts have described this case
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- noting that, in legal malpractice suits, proof of attorney-client relationship is grafted onto customary elements of negligence claim
- noting that, in legal malpractice suits, proof of attorney-client relationship is grafted onto customary elements of negligence claim
- once an attorney-client relationship is established, the elements for legal malpractice are the same as for negligence
- an attorney did not owe a duty of care to his client’s adversary, the mother, where the attorney was hired by a child seeking alternative residential placement away from his mother
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Judges: Utter, Dolliver, Brachtenbach, Dore, Pearson, Andersen, Callow, Goodloe, Durham
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