George v. Caton

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• describing an attorney’s' implied representations and duties when he takes a case
• no formal contract, arrangement, or attorney fee is necessary to create the relationship of attorney and client; the contract may be implied from the conduct of the parties
• measure of damages in case charging the attorney’s negligence in failure to timely prosecute claim is amount that would have been recovered by the client absent the attorney’s negligence
• measure of damages in case charging the attorney's negligence in failure to timely prosecute claim is amount that would have been recovered by the client absent the attorney's negligence
• no formal contract, arrangement, or attorney fee is necessary to create the relationship of attorney and client; the contract may be implied from the conduct of the parties
• \It does not require expert testimony to establish the negligence of an attorney who is ignorant of the applicable statute of limitations or who sits idly by and causes the client to lose the value of his claim for relief.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).