Lamare v. Basbanes

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an attorney in Massachusetts generally owes no duty of care to an adverse party
• holding that the attorney owed the plaintiff no duty of care as a nonclient because the plaintiff’s interests were adverse to the defendant’s interests and owed no duty of care to the plaintiff’s children because there was a potential conflict
• testator's attorney owed no duty to beneficiaries of a trust where imposition of such duty \could impermissibly interfere with attorney's task of advising the trustee\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).