Lane v. Oustalet

How courts have described this case

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

• “legal malpractice may be a violation of the standard of care . . . or the breach of a fiduciary duty”
• “[W]hen the claim is for breach of the standard of conduct [i.e. breach of fiduciary duty], we conclude that lack of expert testimony should not preclude the issue from being heard by a jury.”
• “The law of agency generally imputes knowledge and information received by an agent in conducting the 21 business of a principal to the principal, even where that knowledge or information is not communicated by the agent to the principal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).