This Law Firm Publication by Jackson Lewis LLP discusses Williams v. Smith, in which the Minnesota Supreme Court held that a prospective employee, an assistant coach of a college basketball team, could not assert a claim for negligent misrepresentation against the team's head coach, who offered and later rescinded a job opportunity. A negligent representation claim is unavailable where a prospective employment relationship is negotiated at arm's length between sophisticated business persons and does not involve a professional, fiduciary or other special legal relationship. In Williams, the coaches engaged in an arm's length negotiation, and therefore the head coach did not owe a duty of care to the assistant.