Cohen v. Goldman

How courts have described this case

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• attorney failed to notify clients he had settled their case without their authority and then pocketed the settlement proceeds
• attorney failed to notify clients he had settled their case without their authority and then pocketed the settlement proceeds
• “the mere engagement of an attorney does not ipso facto imply authority to compromise his [or her] client’s case”
• client who engages an attorney to bring a lawsuit on his behalf will be bound by a settlement entered into by that attorney despite the attorney’s lack of actual authority to settle the case
• “[i]t is the conduct of the client and not that of the attorney which must be considered in determining whether apparent authority exists, and if it does, the client is bound by what the attorney does”
• \client who engages an attorney to bring a lawsuit on his behalf will be bound by a settlement entered into by that attorney despite the attorney's lack of actual authority to settle the case\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).