In Re Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that partner’s belief that partnership attorney represented him individually was reasonable when attorney had represented the partner in personal matters and the partner had relied on the attorney’s legal expertise for a number of years
• discussing circumstances in which an attorney has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of a corporate client
• finding client’s belief of existence of lawyer-client relationship reasonable under similar circumstances
• stating “that the mere fact that a lawyer represents a partnership does not ipso facto make that lawyer the legal counsel to the individual members of the partnership or create a fiduciary relationship that flows to those individuals”
• court gives weight to trial panel assessment of credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In Re Complaint as to Conduct of Devers
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1999-01-22· cited 38×
• In Re Complaint as to Conduct of Wittemyer
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1999-04-29· cited 16×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Obert
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2004-05-06· cited 14×
• In Re Complaint as to Conduct of Huffman
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 13×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Claussen
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2000-11-09· cited 10×
• State v. Ferguson
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2001-03-14· cited 6×
• Bennett v. Baugh
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1998-06-10· cited 5×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Smith
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2010-07-15· cited 3×
• Oregon State Bar Assoc. v. Kelley (In Re Kelley)
  N.D. Ohio· 2006-11-28· cited 1×
• Kreidler v. Taylor
  D. Oregon· 2007-01-18
• Clair Vanderschaaf v. Victor Bishara
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-09-28
• James L. Pettis, III v. John Karsten Simrall
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2023-01-19

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Nelson v. Emerald People's Utility District
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1993-12-09· cited 202×
• Riley Hill General Contractor, Inc. v. Tandy Corp.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 175×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Hockett
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 47×
• Starkweather v. Shaffer
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1972-05-24· cited 45×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Weidner
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1990-11-26· cited 24×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Bristow
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1986-06-17· cited 23×
• Van De Hey v. United States National Bank
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-04-02· cited 23×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Morin
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1994-08-11· cited 20×
• Starr v. International Realty, Ltd.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1975-03-13· cited 18×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Trukositz
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-02-06· cited 18×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Jeffery
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 13×
• In Re Conduct of Barber
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 10×
• In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Brown
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1970-05-28· cited 5×