Bei Yang v Pagan Law Firm, P.C. 2024 NY Slip Op 03394 Decided on June 20, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department is a decision that is as short as possible. It comes in a case which seems to fit with those who would say that legal malpractice cases are all just “buyers’ remorse” or “dissatisfaction with the outcome” rather than demonstrations of departures by attorneys from good practice.

Here is the body of the decision: “Plaintiff cannot show that, but for defendants’ negligence, she would have obtained a verdict after trial that exceeded the $1.3 million settlement amount defendants negotiated (see Gallet, Dreyer & Berkey, LLP v Basile, 141 AD3d 405 [1st Dept 2016]; see also Schloss v Steinberg, 100 AD3d 476 [1st Dept 2012]).”