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FLAHERTY v. WEINBERG

No. 118, September Term, 1983.

303 Md. 116 (1985)

492 A.2d 618

ROBERT E. FLAHERTY ET UX. v. MANUEL WEINBERG ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 28, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Nash, Silver Spring (Hugh E. Donovan and Donovan & Nash, Silver Spring, on brief), for appellants.

Ronald W. Fuchs, Baltimore (Edward J. Hutchins, Jr., and Eccleston & Seidler, Baltimore, on brief), for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

COLE, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether an attorney is liable to a nonclient for professional malpractice. Because we recognize that liability may attach in certain limited circumstances and because we last examined this issue over a decade ago, see Prescott v. Coppage, 266 Md. 562, 296 A.2d 150 (1972), and because of the significant increase in case law and professional literature...

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