What started off as a run-of-the-mill loan arrangement turned into a decade of litigation for Dorsey & Whitney that could have cost the firm up to $4 million in malpractice verdicts–until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit tossed out the entire case Thursday.

In the end, the case turned on a simple question: when does a bank become a law firm’s client?

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