Supreme Court of Missouri· 12/20/2011

Hargis v. JLB Corp.

Citations

357 S.W.3d 574
2011 Mo. LEXIS 257
2011 WL 6825042

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concluding that when completing standardized real estate forms that already identified required information, “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required” and thus was not practice of law
holding that preparation of loan applications and financial disclosures was not practice of law because “[t]he forms state what information is required to be filled in or provided” and “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required”
holding that preparation of loan applications and financial disclosures was not practice of law because “[t]he forms state what information is required to be filled in or provided” and “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required”
concluding plaintiffs did not confer a benefit on mortgage company because their unjust-enrichment claim “depends on the [plaintiffs] having directly paid a fee for the preparation of the legal documents” that they did not pay
“[e]ach word, clause, sentence and provision of a statute is presumed to have meaning and effect”

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Judges: Breckenridge, Draper, Fischer, Price, Pritchett, Russell, Stith, Teitelman, Téitelman

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