Mays v. Askin

How courts have described this case

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

• “Generally, the payment of a fee is an important factor in determining the existence of an attorney-client relationship.”
• “The existence of an attorney-client relationship is the threshold question in a legal malpractice [action].”
• An attorney's failure to document non-representation in writing, coupled with the giving of some advice, gave rise to a jury question on the issue of whether a relationship existed and thus, a duty owed to the client.
• An attorney’s failure to document non-representation in writing, coupled with the giving of some advice, gave rise to a jury question on the issue of whether a relationship existed and thus, a duty owed to the client.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).