Agent and Client.

Agent and Client. The employer of a law-agent is entitled to presume that he is possessed of competent professional knowledge, and the agent is consequently responsible to his client for the consequences of want of reasonable care and skill, or gross ignorance in the conduct of the business intrusted to him, as in not duly negotiating a bill, using a wrong stamp, taking an informal security. He does not guarantee that his advice shall be correct. Every gift by a client to his agent is void, unless subsequently confirmed by the client. The gift falls, therefore, if the client dies without confirming it. No one is entitled to suppose that a law-agent has a general authority to bind his client, but he is entitled to conduct, and probably even to compromise, a litigation. See SOLICITOR, WRITER TO THE SIGNET.