Parker v. Carnahan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that husband's attorneys did not have attorney-client relationship with wife even though the wife met with attorneys and signed documents in their offices
• although attorney-client relationship may depend in part on agreement over compensation, the relationship also can be implied by the parties’ conduct
• attorney should have informed non-client that he was not representing that person’s interest if attorney knew that a reasonable person would mistakenly have believed that the attorney was providing representation
• \This duty to so advise would arise if the factfinder determined that the attorneys were aware or should have been aware that their conduct would have led a reasonable person to believe that she was being represented by the attorneys.\
• “This duty to so advise would arise if the factfinder determined that the attorneys were aware or should have been aware that their conduct would have led a reasonable person to believe that she was being represented by the attorneys.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).