Pizel v. Zuspann

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that whether an attorney may be liable to a non-client would be determined by the six-factor balancing test set out in Lucas
• noting the Biakanja court evaluated defendant notary’s moral blame instead of the liability burden on the profession since he was not an attorney
• “comparative law principles apply to a legal malpractice action unless as a matter of law the client had no obligation to act on the client’s own behalf’
• the general rule is that “a cause of action accrues when the right to maintain a legal action arises”
• malpractice action against attorneys who drafted trust and trust amendments did not accrue until trust was declared invalid by trial court
• “A cause of action for breach of contract accrues on the date of the breach.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).