Gould v. Mellick & Sexton

Opinion

LANDAU, J.

In these consolidated cases, the plaintiffs,1 investors in a failed real estate development ven*544ture, appeal from the summary judgments rendered in favor of the defendant, Mellick and Sexton, a law firm. On appeal, the plaintiffs claim that the court improperly granted the defendant’s motions for summary judgment by concluding that (1) the absence of an attorney-client relationship was fatal to the plaintiffs’ negligence claims and (2) the defendant was not a party to the escrow agreement. During oral argument before us, we raised the issue, sua sponte, of whether the trial…