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BEHNKE v. AHRENS

No. 67459-5-I.

280 P.3d 496 (2012)

169 Wn. App. 360

John BEHNKE and Carl Behnke as trustees and on behalf of the G.W. SKINNER CHILDREN'S TRUST and the G.W. Skinner Trust No. 2, Appellants, v. Edward AHRENS and Teri Ahrens, husband and wife, Respondents, Darin DeAngeli and Anne DeAngeli, husband and wife; and FWP Technologies, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

July 2, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell Delmar Hallett , Chicoine & Hallett, Seattle, WA, Kenneth Wendell Masters , Shelby R. Frost Lemmel , Masters Law Group PLLC, Christopher Cyrus Pence , Law Office of Christopher Pence PLLC, Bainbridge Island, WA, for Appellants.

Robert M. Sulkin , Barbara Himes Schuknecht , Malaika Marie Eaton , McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren, Seattle, WA, for Respondents.

BECKER, J.

¶ 1 Appellants employed a capital gains tax reduction strategy that landed them in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). They brought several claims against their attorney Edward Ahrens on grounds that he failed to disclose the extent of his business relationship with the company whose tax shelter plan he recommended. Because appellants made an inadequate response to Ahrens' motion for summary judgment on their claim that he violated the...

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