1. Russell v. Legal Aid Soc’y, 05-3876-cv , UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT , 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 24794, September 29, 2006, Legal Malpractice case, previously dismissed in Fed Ct. was brought in State Court, with State causes of action only. Matter required remand. No real discussion of legal malpractice.

2. Achtman v. Kirby, Mcinerney & Squire, LLP, Docket No. 04-5473-cv , UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT , This is the failure to sue Anderson case we reported on. Its a class action which was dismissed.

3. Estate of Martinez v. Yavorcik, Case No. 3:06cv362 (JBA) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74504, Case is a discussion of
lack of personal and Conn long-arm statute.

4. Ciocca v. Neff, No. 02 Civ. 5067 (LTS)(HBP) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72503 Reconsideration of denial of SJ.

5. Britestarr Homes, Inc. v. Piper Rudnick Llp, Civil Action No. 3:05cv796 (SRU) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70195, A land sale, liens, and plaintiff’s failure to show damages leads to summaru judgment.

6. New Falls Corp. v. Lerner, CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:05cv1716(SRU) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73640, September 28, 2006, Question of whether case is yet ripe for legal malpractice. Court held it was, but stayed pending outcome in bankruptcy court.

7. Kebede v. Johnson, 02-CV-3315 (DLI) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64388, September 8, 2006, Decided, Plaintiff wins arbitration against some defendants, loses this de novo case regarding due dilligence in a business transaction,

8. Carruthers v. Flaum, 03 Civ. 7768 , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64684, September 6, 2006, Decided Indian Nation gaming case where large purchases of land in anticipaton of Sullivan County casino wend bad. Case dismissed against all, including attorney.

9. Schiel v. Stop & Shop Co., CIV. NO. 3:96CV1742 (WWE) , UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT , 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73508, lost employment discrimination case, claims of fraud on the court, plaintiff loses.

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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.

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