Rydde v. Morris

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• stating \existing law [] imposes a privity requirement as a condition to maintaining a legal malpractice claim in South Carolina\
• stating South Carolina law imposes a privity requirement as a condition to maintaining a legal malpractice claim
• stating “existing law [] imposes a privity requirement as a condition to maintaining a legal malpractice claim in South Carolina”
• stating the elements of a legal malpractice claim include “damage to the client”
• finding this court must construe the complaint in the light most favorable to Appellants to determine if the facts alleged and inferences reasonably deducible therefrom would entitle Appellants to relief on any theory of the case
• noting, albeit in dicta, that generally an attorney owes a duty to a non-client intended beneficiary of an executed will where it is shown that the testator’s intent has been defeated or diminished by negligence on the part of the attorney, resulting in loss to the beneficiary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).