{"id":253,"date":"2013-07-11T03:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","slug":"plaintiffs-lacked-standing-to-sue-for-legal-malpractice-when-no-direct-attorney-client-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/plaintiffs-lacked-standing-to-sue-for-legal-malpractice-when-no-direct-attorney-client-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaintiffs lacked standing to sue for legal malpractice when no direct attorney-client relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Chris Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3331361242777293143&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Taylor v. Hogan, Case No. 3-179\/12-0898 (IA Court of Appeals April 24, 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iowa appeals court affirmed defense verdict in legal malpractice trial. LLC #1 and its individual members sued attorney that represented LLC #2 in an investment deal. LLC #1 was a member of LLC #2. LLC #1 and its members alleged that attorney owed them a duty to obtain releases of guarantees made by LLC #1 and its individual members.<\/p>\n<p>Trial court held that neither LLC #1 nor the individual members had standing to sue LLC #2&#8217;s attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The court stated &#8220;[b]ecause in Iowa, as elsewhere, a limited liability company is a legal entity distinct from its members, it is also the general rule that an attorney representing a limited liability company owes a duty of care solely to the limited liability company, not to its separate members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attorney only owed a duty to LLC #2, not its member, LLC #1, or LLC #1&#8217;s members.<\/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 Chris Graham and Joseph Kelly Taylor v. Hogan, Case No. 3-179\/12-0898 (IA Court of Appeals April 24, 2013) Iowa appeals court affirmed defense verdict in legal malpractice trial. LLC #1 and its individual members sued attorney that represented LLC #2 in an investment deal. LLC #1 was a member of LLC #2. LLC #1 [&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":6,"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\/253"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}