Where Plaintiff may sue the attorney is the question of venue.  Generally speaking, it is in the county where the plaintiff resides, or where the defendant resides.  PCs "reside" in the county where their principal place of business is.  However, the location of the attorney’s office need not be the county where the principal place of business is.  That county is designated by the corporate documents filed for the PC.

In Brion v Moreira   2015 NY Slip Op 30160(U)  February 3, 2015  Supreme Court, New York  County Docket Number: 155815/14  Judge: Donna M. Mills  we see Supreme Court analyze there the law firm may be sued.
 

Thereafter, it is defendant’s burden to establish that given the type of action, the venue chosen was improper. Id. Plaintiff must demonstrate that the venue chosen was proper. Id. A plaintiff forfeits the right to select the venue in an action if said plaintiff chooses an improper venue in the first instance. Kelson v. Nedicks Stores, Inc., 104 A.D.2d 315, 478 N.Y.S.2d 648 (1st Dept.1984).
Here, plaintiffs rely on defendant Moreira PLLC’s Articles of Organization that were filed with the New York Secretary of State on August 23, 2005 which designated New York County as is principal office. Additionally, a computer printout, dated May 21, 2014 from the New York State Department of State’s website also confirms that Moreira’s principal place of business is New York County. The law is clear that the sole residence of a limited liability company for venue purposes is the county where its principal office is located as designated in its articles of organization (see CPLR 503 (c); Limited Liability Company Law§§ 102 (s]; 203 [e) [2]; Graziuso v 2060 Hylan Blvd. Rest. Corp., 300 AD2d 627, 628 (2002); see also Mi/om v Marble Hall Apts., Inc., 37 AD3d 672 [2007]; Hamilton v Corona Ready Mix, Inc., 21 AD3d 448, 449 (2005)). Such office need not be a place where business activities are conducted by the limited liability company (see Limited Liability Company Law§ 102 [s)). Since the defendants failed to establish that the county designated by the plaintiffs in the first instance was improper, its motion to change the venue of the action from New York County to Queens County shall be denied.

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Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone has been an attorney for 40 years, with a career that spans criminal prosecution, civil litigation and appellate litigation. Mr. Bluestone became an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County in 1978, entered private practice in 1984 and in 1989 opened…

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone has been an attorney for 40 years, with a career that spans criminal prosecution, civil litigation and appellate litigation. Mr. Bluestone became an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County in 1978, entered private practice in 1984 and in 1989 opened his private law office and took his first legal malpractice case.

Since 1989, Bluestone has become a leader in the New York Plaintiff’s Legal Malpractice bar, handling a wide array of plaintiff’s legal malpractice cases arising from catastrophic personal injury, contracts, patents, commercial litigation, securities, matrimonial and custody issues, medical malpractice, insurance, product liability, real estate, landlord-tenant, foreclosures and has defended attorneys in a limited number of legal malpractice cases.

Bluestone also took an academic role in field, publishing the New York Attorney Malpractice Report from 2002-2004.  He started the “New York Attorney Malpractice Blog” in 2004, where he has published more than 4500 entries.

Mr. Bluestone has written 38 scholarly peer-reviewed articles concerning legal malpractice, many in the Outside Counsel column of the New York Law Journal. He has appeared as an Expert witness in multiple legal malpractice litigations.

Mr. Bluestone is an adjunct professor of law at St. John’s University College of Law, teaching Legal Malpractice.  Mr. Bluestone has argued legal malpractice cases in the Second Circuit, in the New York State Court of Appeals, each of the four New York Appellate Divisions, in all four of  the U.S. District Courts of New York and in Supreme Courts all over the state.  He has also been admitted pro haec vice in the states of Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida and was formally admitted to the US District Court of Connecticut and to its Bankruptcy Court all for legal malpractice matters. He has been retained by U.S. Trustees in legal malpractice cases from Bankruptcy Courts, and has represented municipalities, insurance companies, hedge funds, communications companies and international manufacturing firms. Mr. Bluestone regularly lectures in CLEs on legal malpractice.

Based upon his professional experience Bluestone was named a Diplomate and was Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in 2008 in Legal Malpractice. He remains Board Certified.  He was admitted to The Best Lawyers in America from 2012-2019.  He has been featured in Who’s Who in Law since 1993.

In the last years, Mr. Bluestone has been featured for two particularly noteworthy legal malpractice cases.  The first was a settlement of an $11.9 million dollar default legal malpractice case of Yeo v. Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman which was reported in the NYLJ on August 15, 2016. Most recently, Mr. Bluestone obtained a rare plaintiff’s verdict in a legal malpractice case on behalf of the City of White Plains v. Joseph Maria, reported in the NYLJ on February 14, 2017. It was the sole legal malpractice jury verdict in the State of New York for 2017.

Bluestone has been at the forefront of the development of legal malpractice principles and has contributed case law decisions, writing and lecturing which have been recognized by his peers.  He is regularly mentioned in academic writing, and his past cases are often cited in current legal malpractice decisions. He is recognized for his ample writings on Judiciary Law § 487, a 850 year old statute deriving from England which relates to attorney deceit.