Elliott v. Videan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jury was properly instructed regarding professional rules of conduct, with an instruction that die rules were merely evidence that could be considered in deciding whether the attorney committed malpractice
• punitive damages were appropriate where attorney had conflict of interest, concealed it from his client, and acted to benefit other clients at first client's expense
• “punitive damages have historically been awarded against attorneys for legal malpractice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).