The attorney-client relationship gives rise to unique obligations and duties by an attorney to that client. For that reason, generally speaking, an attorney cannot be liable at law to those outside the limited class of people to whom the attorney owes a legal duty to exercise ordinary care, skill and diligence in the performance of professional services.
In most cases, this means that an attorney owes a duty to his or her clients to perform legal service in accordance with the standard of care ordinarily exercised by attorneys in the legal profession generally. But a duty may potentially be found to extend to nonclients and third parties in certain situations, whether because of a specific issue of third party liability or because the attorney has not taken proper steps to reduce such a risk.
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