We reported theRed Zone v. Cadwalader summary judgment news back in September.  Today, the case is complete, andthe Judge awarded $ 16.7 million to plaintiff Red Zone for Cadwalader’s failure to carry out its instructions to ensure a letter agreement between Red Zone and UBS Securities LLC which itself memorialized an oral agreement…

In this legal malpractice case, defendant made motions in a seemingly out-of-order fashion, yet succeeded even though. Here is the AD discussing a novel method of moving to dismiss in Shirzadnia v Lecci 2012 NY Slip Op 09043 Appellate Division, Second Department:
 

"The plaintiff commenced the instant action by the filing of a summons…

It’s called lateral movement. The New York Law Journal is constantly talking about how mid-level laterals are being sought, or how they are finding difficulty in moving from one firm to another.  Attorneys are constantly in motion, moving from one firm to another.  Because movement is usually a business decision attorneys take care to bring cases…

Would the words "mutual understanding" have made the difference in this case? Continuous representation by an attorney of a client requires actual work, a mutual understanding that further work has to be performed and a relationship of trust and confidence. In Landow v Snow Becker Krauss P.C. 2012 NY Slip Op 31971(U)    Supreme Court…

Legal malpractice is different from all other areas of litigation, as it has a fourth and unique requirement that "but for" the mistake of the attorney, there would have been a different and better result for plaintiff.  In Portilla v Law Offs. of Arcia & Flanagan   2013 NY Slip Op 08606   Decided on December 26…

Reading the beginning of this case immediately brought us back to a Conflicts class at law school, and that’s a very long time ago. We were to to analyze an auto accident in which plaintiff resided in state A and the accident took place in state B and the insurer was from state C…well you…

Husband suffers personal injury in a fall from a scaffold. He resolves the case for $1M. Even at that number, he and wife then succeed in a legal malpractice case for an additional $ 297,000. What happens then? Burnett v Burnett, 2012 NY Slip Op 08850  Appellate Division, Third Department tells the sad but…

We’ve asked in the past whether there is an institutional bias against legal malpractice cases. Self-regulation of industries ( the LIBOR, for example) often lacks any rigor. The legal world also, in a way, self regulates. It is after all, rules for attorneys, written by attorneys, administered and judged by attorneys. In Wiener v Epstein…