An individual acquaintance of a member-firm employee inspects a row house as a favor and gives information on its structural integrity. When the homeowner is faced with major issues in the house, the project manager gets sued with the breach of contract even though there was no formal contract.

apologies; Back Bay Boston ;Beacon Hill Boston; contracts; daily field reports; deceptive trade practices; deposition; DFRs; discovery documentation; duty of care; favors; file management; homeowners; litigation; negligent misrepresentation; pile repair professional negligence; project files; settlement problems; single-family residential; small project; subpoena duces tecum; underpinning; willful negligence; wooden piles