Physician is sued for office rent.  It’s a lot and the case comes down to whether he signed a guarantee or not.  Eventually his attorneys submit an unsworn report (affidvavit ?) of a handwriting expert.  Not good enough.  Legal malpractice follows and is dismissed in Antell v Goldstein  2020 NY Slip Op 32573(U) August 6,…

The claim is that the attorneys waived an evidentiary hearing, without consent.  Does that state a cause of action for legal malpractice?  In Law Firm of Alexander D. Tripp, P.C. v Fiorilla
2020 NY Slip Op 32636(U) August 6, 2020 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: 654991/2019 Judge: Lucy Billings it does.

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Plaintiff sued and was successful in obtaining a judgment.  The judgment was uncollectible.  In Ofman v Tenenbaum Berger & Shivers LLP  2020 NY Slip Op 32828(U)  July 23, 2020
Supreme Court, Kings County  Docket Number: 524482/2019  Judge: Richard Velasquez,  Plaintiff alleged that had the attorney been quicker, the defendant would not have been able to…

CPLR 3211 dismissals are granted more frequently than might be expected,  Dedaj v Berisha  decided on July 15, 2020 Appellate Division, Second Department is almost an exception.  Two items are of interest.  First, the assignment of the legal malpractice claim is affirmed, almost without comment.  Second, the (a)(7) motion is denied almost mechanically.  This is…

Schuster v Miller  2020 NY Slip Op 32291(U) July 13, 2020 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: 155658/2019 Judge: Kathryn E. Freed is a strange case that really seems to be about $ 10,000.  Plaintiff participated in an attorney fee request in the Matrimonial part and her affidavit there came back to haunt the…

Matin v Chowdhury  2020 NY Slip Op 32491(U)  June 18, 2020  Supreme Court, Queens County  Docket Number: 701633/2019  Judge: Joseph Risi is the story of possible dual representation in the purchase of a franchise.  Naturally something went wrong, and now there are claims and third-party claims of legal malpractice.

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Here, seller’s attorney is sued for a real estate transaction gone bad.  The dispute was about title problems.  In Jenkin v Cadore, 2020 NY Slip Op 03649  Decided on July 1, 2020
Appellate Division, Second Department, one important issue is that Plaintiffs did not use an expert affidavit in opposition to summary…

Real Estate claims fill a large part of the Legal Malpractice docket in New York.  This is certainly not surprising, as real estate might be the largest economic engine for New York City, and there is certainly a lot of money moving around in the real estate market.  Moncho v Miller  2020 NY Slip Op…