Ruden v. Jenk

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the rules of professional conduct do “not undertake to define standards of civil liability”
• holding the rules of professional conduct do \not undertake to define standards of civil liability\
• holding, as a matter of law, defendant failed to show proximate cause
• holding, as a matter of law, defendant failed to show proximate cause
• recognizing a duty of an estate attorney to advise the executors of the legal validity of a written instrument held by the decedent at the time of death that assigned the decedent’s interest in a real estate sales contract to the executors
• noting the first attorney’s negligence is not the proximate cause of damages if the successor attorney is hired at a time when the action is not barred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).