Majumdar v. Lurie

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a cause of action for legal malpractice requires a breach of an attorney’s duty to a client
• affirming the dismissal of a breach of fiduciary duty claim because it was duplicative of a legal malpractice claim
• noting attorneys need not be clairvoyant when discharging their legal obligations
• when the same operative facts support action for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty resulting in the same alleged injury to the client, actions are identical and the latter should be dismissed as duplicative
• a malpractice action arises out of either an express or implied contract and consequently, because the duty owed arises out of a contractual relationship, it is necessarily limited by the scope of the contract of employment
• a malpractice action arises out of either an express or implied contract and consequently, because the duty owed arises out of a contractual relationship, it is necessarily limited by the scope of the contract of employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).