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Title: Roberts v. Fearey
Author : Oregon Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 15, 1999
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 57 KB

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The issue before us is whether a trustees attorney can be liable to the beneficiaries of the trust for legal malpractice. Plaintiff appeals from summary judgment entered in defendants favor and argues that the trial court should have applied the general foreseeability test for negligence and should not have taken a "policy approach" to declining to recognize a basis for malpractice liability under the circumstances of this case. We hold that defendant did not owe a duty to protect the beneficiaries from their economic losses and therefore is not liable as a matter of law. Accordingly, we affirm.