MNC Credit Corp. v. Sickels

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• prohibiting assignments of legal malpractice claims “safeguards the attorney-client relationship which is an indispensable component of our adversarial system of justice.... [and] to do so would undermine the important [attorney-client] relationship^]”
• demurrer admits the truth of all material facts that are properly pleaded, facts which are impliedly alleged, and facts which may be fairly and justly inferred from alleged facts
• demurrer admits the truth of all material facts that are properly pleaded, facts which are impliedly alleged, and facts which may be fairly and justly inferred from alleged facts
• “[A] person who benefits only incidentally from a contract between others cannot sue thereon.”
• “[A] person who benefits only incidentally from a contract between others cannot sue thereon.”
• Under Virginia law, assignment of legal malpractice claims will not be enforced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).