Divorce, Legal Malpractice and Proofs
Here is a pdf version of the Oxman v Herman Sloan Robarge & Sullivan, LLP case, which is a not unusual matrimonial legal malpractice case, As in many of these cases, plaintiff-wife believes that her attorney has insufficiently investigated the assets of her husband, to the extent that she has been significantly short-changed in equitable distribution. The wife alleges that she was shortchanged $ 300,000 in the guitar alone.
In this particular case, there was a guitar collection, including a very valuable Eric Clapton guitar, a house in Greenwich, CT, jewlery and stocks. What will be at issue will be the attorney's investigation, whether he retained a forensic accountant, and to what extent her attorney acquiesced in the husband's valuations.
Motion to dismiss denied and the case continues.