{"id":183,"date":"2013-05-15T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","slug":"allegations-of-implied-in-fact-contract-with-attorneys-enough-to-establish-legal-malpractice-claim-at-pleading-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/allegations-of-implied-in-fact-contract-with-attorneys-enough-to-establish-legal-malpractice-claim-at-pleading-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations of implied-in-fact contract with attorneys enough to establish legal malpractice claim at pleading stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher J. Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph P. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=2095510495562695944&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Scanlan v. Marshall Eisenberg, et al, Case No. 09 C 5026 (N.D. Ill Nov. 15, 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trust beneficiary sued law firm and lawyers for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty.  Defendants allegedly represented both the plaintiff beneficiary and the trustee; and caused the Trust to purchase stock and make loans for the benefits of others.  Defendants unsuccessfully argued plaintiff didn\u2019t allege an attorney-client relationship.  While there was no express representation of plaintiff by defendants, plaintiff alleged an implied-in-fact contract through allegations regarding plaintiff\u2019s interactions with defendants over the years, including numerous examples where defendants advised plaintiff on legal matters.  Defendants also unsuccessfully argued the fiduciary duty count was duplicative of the legal malpractice count but the court allowed the fiduciary duty count to proceed because it was based on different conduct than alleged in the legal malpractice count.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher J. Graham and Joseph P. Kelly Scanlan v. Marshall Eisenberg, et al, Case No. 09 C 5026 (N.D. Ill Nov. 15, 2012) Trust beneficiary sued law firm and lawyers for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty. Defendants allegedly represented both the plaintiff beneficiary and the trustee; and caused the Trust to purchase [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}