West Virginia Code Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations § 30-2-12. Liability of attorney or agent for loss of debt or money

If any attorney-at-law or agent shall, by his negligence or improper conduct, lose any debt or other money of his client, he shall be charged with the principal of what is so lost, and interest thereon, in like manner as if he had received such principal, and it may be recovered from him by suit or motion.