Professional liability to third parties /

"Lawyers, accountants, architects, and other professionals once owed a duty only to their clients. Today, however, professionals are increasingly being held liable to third parties - nonclients who rely on them or are otherwise injured when they perform negligently. This book examines all of th...

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Main Author: Feinman, Jay M.
Corporate Author: American Bar Association. Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, [2013]
Edition:Third edition
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260 |a Chicago, Illinois :  |b American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section,  |c [2013] 
300 |a xi, 410 pages ;  |c 23 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Historical development -- Privity and near privity -- Third party beneficiary law -- Negligence -- Misrepresentation -- Lawyers -- Accountants -- Evaluative business services -- Design professionals : architects and engineers -- Other instances of liability to third parties 
520 |a "Lawyers, accountants, architects, and other professionals once owed a duty only to their clients. Today, however, professionals are increasingly being held liable to third parties - nonclients who rely on them or are otherwise injured when they perform negligently. This book examines all of the instances of professional liability to third parties. The book aims to help the lawyers who analyze and argue third party cases and the judges who decide them. It surveys the law and presents alternative frameworks that can be used to argue for or against liability. In doing so, it brings to bear insights and approaches from scholarship on economic loss, contract and tort law, and legal argument. There has been much discussion lately about whether law schools and legal scholarship are too far removed from law practice. This book is evidence of the extent to which scholarship can inform practice"--Preface 
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