This case mentions legal malpractice, and is a variant of the classic “you did me wrong, so I’m suing” trope. Here, an international investor, is accused of defamation of a well-regarded law firm and its principal.
Morelli v Wey 2016 NY Slip Op 32487(U) December 16, 2016 Supreme Court, New York County
Docket Number: 153011/16 …
We continue with the cases:
7. Neroni v Follender 2016 NY Slip Op 01527 [137 AD3d 1336] March 3, 2016 Appellate Division, Third Department is the story of a defendant who was sued and lost, then turned around and sued the plaintiffs and their attorneys not unlike a poster-child for the principle of privity. It…
Vol.2 of all the Judiciary Law Cases of 2016:
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Legal malpractice litigation is all about mistakes, significant mistakes, made by attorneys. The loss of a legal malpractice case via an unopposed motion to dismiss ranks high on the irony scale. Thus, Goss v DiMarco 2016 NY Slip Op 08506 Decided on December 21, 2016 Appellate Division, Second Department is instructive on two levels. First,…
Judiciary Law § 487 is (perhaps) the oldest statute in existence here in New York. It descends from the first Statute of Westminster, which was adopted by the Parliament summoned by King Edward I of England in 1275. It has been in effect from the founding of our country. The statute reads:
“Misconduct by Attorneys…
In the world of commercial litigation, intra-company claims often morph into legal malpractice cases. In LLCs one member may go against another member, in corporations, boards can split into majority/minority groups, each pitted against the other. When the LLC or the Corporation hired an attorney, to whom does that attorney owe an obligation? Put another…
Attorneys have duties to clients, in the nature of a fiduciary duty. Professionals other than doctors have duties to their clients/customers in varying levels. Pharmacists, who are professionals owe an independent duty to persons for whom they fill a prescription…don’t they? Well…not really, even though the profession of pharmacology is traced back to ancient Egypt…
Weinstein v CohnReznick, LLP 2016 NY Slip Op 08068 Decided on November 30, 2016
Appellate Division, Second Department is an example of the Second Department Appellate Division dicing a Suffolk County dismissal into component parts. and keeping one claim alive.
Plaintiffs essentially sued the accountants for a group that took them over. Was there sufficient…
When reading an Appellate Division decision, the tone and subject matter rapidly indicate that the case is a pro-se legal malpractice litigation, as the participants spend inordinate amounts of time debating useless issues. As an example, Hyman v Pierce 2016 NY Slip Op 08272 Decided on December 8, 2016 Appellate Division, Third Department deals entirely…
One way to look at how legal malpractice cases come out is by applying Occam’s razor. Which result will more likely be final…now, not later? Optical Communications Groups, Inc. v Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman, LLP 2016 NY Slip Op 08180 Decided on December 6, 2016 Appellate Division, First Department is a fine example. The…
