In Bei Yang v. Pagan Law Firm P.C.  Slip Opinion No: 2022 NY Slip Op 73132(U), Decided on October 18, 2022 the Appellate Division, First Department, determined that Plaintiff may not use a pseudonym in a legal malpractice law suit.

“And plaintiff-appellant having moved, pro se, to suppress allegedly improperly obtained privileged information of psychotherapy notes from Dr. Mikki Meyers; suppress allegedly privileged medical records and a laboratory report from Dr. Bina Mody; deny, limit or regulate defendants’ submissions containing alleged defamatory statements and untruths associated with “Defendants’ Three-Step Abuse of Disclosure  Devises”; and for permission to use a pseudonym in the instant appeal, the legal malpractice lawsuit and the underlying medical malpractice lawsuit,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is denied in its entirety.”