Shaffer v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that where a court considers evidence at the motion to dismiss stage, it should convert the motion into a summary judgment motion
• noting that we are not bound .by the labels used below and that we will apply an appropriate legal analysis
• noting that an “attorney’s lien for professional services may not be enforced in equity against a stranger” to the matter in which the lawyer’s services were rendered
• “Where matters heard on a 12(b)(6) motion do not extend outside the pleading, our standard of review from an order dismissing a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) is de novo[.]” (citation omitted)
• \This Court [has] pointed out ... that \`[w]e are not bound by the label[s] employed below, and will treat [matters] made pursuant to\ the most appropriate rule.\' (citations omitted)
• \This Court [has] pointed out ... that \ '[w]e are not bound by the label[s] employed below, and will treat [matters] made pursuant to” the most appropriate rule.” ' (citations omitted)

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