Noris v. Silver

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a dismissal for negligent referral because the plaintiff failed to allege that the defendant had knowledge of any facts that would indicate the lawyer would commit malpractice
• affirming dismissal of a negligent-referral claim when the referring attorney did not know that the referred attorney would commit malpractice, but noting possibility of liability based on fee- splitting
• “Therefore, if Silver and Falk agreed to divide the attorney’s fee [by assuming joint responsibility], Silver would be liable for the malpractice committed by Falk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).