Skarbrevik v. Cohen, England & Whitfield

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an attorney could not be sued for professional negligence by a third-party to whom the attorney owed no duty of care
• concluding an attorney representing a corporation had no duty to a minority shareholder because the minority shareholder’s interests were at least potentially adverse to the client the attorney was advising
• applying Doctors’ Co. to reverse a verdict against an attorney where the facts at trial established that the attorney received no more than ordinary fees for legal work performed for the client company
• strong public policy in maintaining and enforcing fidelity and duty of attorney toward client militates against imposing duty to nonclients
• “An attorney generally will not be held liable to a third person not in privity of contract with him since he owes no duty to anyone other than his client.”
• corporate counsel is not the attorney of the corporation’s stockholders merely because his or her actions benefit the stockholders

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).