Guillebeau v. Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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• \An attorney-client relationship cannot be created unilaterally in the mind of a would-be client; a reasonable belief is required.\
• “An attorney-client relationship cannot be created unilaterally in the mind of a would-be client; a reasonable belief is required.”
• attorney liable for conversion for improperly paying real estate proceeds only to his client
• where party obligated herself to pay closing costs before anyone contacted attorney, she did not pay attorney's fee in the furtherance of a contract of legal employment and, therefore, no attorney-client relationship existed
• where party obligated herself to pay closing costs before anyone contacted attorney, she did not pay attorney’s fee in the furtherance of a contract of legal employment and, therefore, no attorney-client relationship existed
• under Georgia law an attorney may be sued by an adversary for fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).