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RAPID GROUP, INC. v. YELLOW CAB OF COLUMBUS

No. A01A1363.

557 S.E.2d 420 (2001)

253 Ga. App. 43

RAPID GROUP, INC., v. YELLOW CAB OF COLUMBUS, INC.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 14, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellant.

Taylor W. Jones & Associates, Taylor W. Jones, Atlanta, Richard E. Harris, Norcross, for appellee.

POPE, Presiding Judge.

In general, legal malpractice liability attaches when an attorney fails to apply well-settled legal principles or procedures. In this case, the attorney representing a taxicab company allegedly failed to assert the well-known independent contractor defense to a claim of respondeat superior for a cabdriver's tort. But the malpractice defendants argued that it is also well settled that the independent...

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