One National Bank v. Joseph M. Antonellis

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to hold attorneys liable where certificate of title included express disclaimer in capital letters
• court “can — and ordinarily should” accept parties’ representations as to applicable substantive law in making choice of law determinations
• “[A] third party, of whom the attorney does not know, [cannot] assume the rights of a client through assignment”
• “Clearly, at that point a conflict of duty of confidentiality would arise: if his client decided not to pass on the information and Antonellis did so in its stead, he would breach his duty of confidentiality”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).