Flaherty v. Weinberg

COLE, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether an attorney is liable to a nonclient for professional malpractice. Because we recognize that liability may attach in certain limited circumstances and because we last examined this issue over a decade ago, see Prescott v. Coppage, 266 Md. 562, 296 A.2d 150 (1972), and because of the significant increase in case law and professional literature on attorney liability to third parties, 1 we find it useful to review the present state of the law on this subject before stating our answer.

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A majority of American courts evidently continue to…