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PARKS v. FINK

No. 67527-3-I.

293 P.3d 1275 (2013)

173 Wn. App. 366

Terry PARKS, Appellant, v. Janyce Lynn FINK, an individual, and Fink Law Group PLLC, a Washington professional limited liability company, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

February 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vic Sung Lam , Law Offices of Vic Sung Lam, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.

Jeffrey A. Smyth , Shaunta M. Kibb , Smyth & Mason, Seattle, WA, for Respondents.

LAU, J.

¶ 1 In this attorney negligence case, nonclient Terry Parks alleges that attorney Janyce Fink owed him a duty of care to promptly execute the will naming him as a prospective beneficiary. To impose a duty in this case would severely compromise the attorney's duty of undivided loyalty to the client and impose an untenable burden on the attorney-client relationship. We therefore hold that an attorney owes no duty of care to a prospective beneficiary to...

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