In the Matter of Kehinde Oluwaranti Jobi, Motion No. Case No. 2023-00084
2008-00178 is the decision which permits the attorney who resigned in the face of legal malpractice claims and a disciplinary committee investigation in 1995 to be reinstated if payments on two legal malpractice judgments continue.

“And an order of this Court having been entered on August 2, 2022 denying
respondent Attorney Grievance Committee’s application for an order confirming the
Referee’s report recommending that reinstatement be denied, and granting petitioner’s
cross motion for an order disaffirming the Referee’s report, and ordering that petitioner
be reinstated to the practice of law in the State of New York upon her providing the
Court and the Committee with proof that she has entered into payment plans with
respect to the two outstanding legal malpractice judgments against her and the default
judgment against her obtained by the S. Family, and directing that thereafter, petitioner
provide the Committee with a progress report, every six months, regarding the status of her efforts with respect to the payment plans (Motion Nos. 2022-02132 and 2022-
02428), And petitioner, upon her submission of an affidavit of compliance with this
Court’s August 2, 2022 order, sworn to on December 29, 2022, having moved this Court
for an order pursuant to 22 NYCRR 1240.16(a) and (b) reinstating her as an attorney
and counselor-at-law in the State of New York,
And the Committee, by Jorge Dopico, its Chief Attorney (Remi Shea, of counsel) having submitted an affirmation stating, inter alia, that it does not oppose petitioner’s motion for reinstatement,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due
deliberation having been had thereon, it is unanimously,

ORDERED that petitioner’s motion for reinstatement is granted, and petitioner Kehinde Oluwaranti Jobi is reinstated as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the State
of New York, effective the date hereof, upon the conditions that she continue to provide
the Committee with the six-month progress reports required by the August 2, 2022
order, until completion of the payment plans, and that she immediately register with
and pay to the Office of Court Administration any applicable registration fees in
compliance with Judiciary Law § 468-a.”

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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.