Legal Opinion
Flatt v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Decided December 28, 1994No. S031687PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ARABIAN, J.
We granted review in this legal malpractice action to consider the scope of an attorney’s duty to give advice when severing a relationship with a new or prospective client after learning that the representation—involving the filing of a lawsuit—would conflict irreconcilably with the duty of loyalty owed to an existing client, the target of the contemplated litigation. We conclude that the requirement of undivided loyalty to the first client negates any duty on the part of the attorney to inform the second client *279of the statute of limitations applicable to the proposed…
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