Fickett v. Superior Court of Pima County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel for conservator had fiduciary duty to ward
• when an attorney undertakes to represent a guardian he or she also assumes a relationship with the ward
• attorney’s duty of care in performing legal services for the client extends to the intended beneficiary
• attorney may be liable to the ward of a guardian for negligent representation of the guardian
• when an attorney undertakes to represent a guardian he or she also assumes a relationship with the ward
• guardian had embarked upon a scheme to misappropriate estate funds to his own use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).