OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
As all schoolchildren learn, appearances can be deceiving. See, e.g., "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," in The Fables of Aesop 94 (Joseph Jacobs ed., 1902). But their absence in a lawsuit can be fatal to the finality of any settlement negotiated with a lawyer who neither entered an appearance nor became an attorney of record for one of the settling parties.
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