Gold v. Vasileff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an “attorney owes a duty to a non-client only in the most limited circumstances”
• “A failure to perform a promise to do some act in the future cannot be the subject of an action for fraud.”
• though attorney allegedly promised that client would perform terms and conditions of contract, and attorney allegedly knew or should have known that client would not so perform, claim for misrepresentation would not lie for “failure to perform a promise to do some act in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).