In re Deveaux

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming dismissal of malpractice claim because the record was “devoid of any evidence” that an attorney-client relationship existed
• “To recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove, inter alia, the existence of an attorney-client relationship.”
• “The record is devoid of any evidence indicating that [the attorneys] either affirmatively led [the alleged client] to believe that they were acting as his attorney or knowingly allowed him to proceed under that misconception.”
• attorneys representing corporation did not have attorney-client relationship with corporation’s principal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).