In Platt v Berkowitz  2022 NY Slip Op 01405 Decided on March 03, 2022  the Appellate Division, First Department wiped out two separate Judiciary Law § 487 claims, on on collateral estoppel and the other for lack of standing.

“The doctrine of collateral estoppel precludes plaintiff’s Judiciary Law § 487 claim against defendant Morrell Berkowitz, Esq. (see Buechel v Bain, 97 NY2d 295, 303 [2001], cert denied 535 US 1096 [2002]). Plaintiff’s claim is premised on alleged misrepresentations or mischaracterizations of evidence Berkowitz made to the courts while representing the Board of Directors of Windsor Owners Corp. in an action brought against plaintiff for her conduct while she was a member of the Board. Plaintiff had a full and fair opportunity to raise her Judiciary Law § 487 claim in her motion for sanctions in that prior action, which was denied (Board of Directors of Windsor Owners Corp. v Platt, Sup Ct, NY County, March 28, 2018, Schecter, J., index No. 155985/14; see Doscher v Mannatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, 148 AD3d 523, 523-24 [1st Dept 2017]).

In any event, plaintiff failed to state a cause of action under Judiciary Law § 487 against Berkowitz. Specifically, she failed to allege any actual deceit, and the misconduct that she alleges is not “egregious or a chronic and extreme pattern of behavior” (Doscher, 148 AD3d at 524 [internal quotation marks omitted]).

The claim against defendant Deborah Koplovitz, Esq., for a violation of Judiciary Law § 487(1) was properly dismissed, because the complaint does not allege that Koplovitz was counsel of record in any pending proceeding to which plaintiff was a party (Mazzocchi v Gilbert, 185 AD3d 438, 438 [1st Dept 2020], lv denied 37 NY3d 908 [2021]; Sun Graphics Corp. v Levy, Davis & Maher, LLP, 94 AD3d 669 [1st Dept 2012]).”