This must have been a highly contentious legal malpractice  case, with the Court showing its displeasure to both attorneys.  A sanction of $10,000 on defendant pro-se attorney is unusual; a sanction on both sides even more so

Selletti v Liotti    2013 NY Slip Op 01816   Decided on March 20, 2013   Appellate Division, Second…

Nichols v Curtis  2013 NY Slip Op 01776  Decided on March 19, 2013  Appellate Division, First Department  is the story of how a legal malpractice case went awry and then how the legal malpractice case against the legal malpractice defendants went awry.  Curtis & Associates, and an earlier Curtis & Riess-Curtis PC were early adopters in…

Gardner v Leitgeb & Vitelli, LLP ;2012 NY Slip Op 50282(U) ;Decided on February 17, 2012 ;Supreme Court, Suffolk County ;Emerson, J. presents an interesting story of parents v. children, with professionals in the middle. More interesting, fraud, associations with organized crime, and a pizza location are all added in the mix of ingredients.
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A non-party deponent, served with a subpoena, arrives for a deposition.  That non-party  wisely brings an attorney.  What may the attorney do at the deposition?  It depends where the case is taking place.  In the 4th Department (22 Counties, roughly half the state?) the attorney will be permitted no objections and may not speak.  Sciara …

It as common as rain.  Law firms hire clerical or service organizations to do things for the law firm.  File papers, serve parties, perfect a security lien and file the UCC-1.  What happens to the law firm, and the client, when things go wrong.  Here, in Gutarts v Fox  2013 NY Slip Op 01492  Decided…

For policy reasons New York Courts limit the types of damages that might be awarded in legal malpractice.  Basically, as the NY Court of Appeals recently reiterated, only pecuniary loss may be the subject of legal malpractice litigation. This specifically and totally leaves out any type of emotional damages.  Nevertheless people suffer these injuries when their attorneys…

The question of standing is frequently seen in shareholder-corporation cases and often leads to legal malpractice claims afterwards.  In Lieblich v Pruzan  2013 NY Slip Op 01497  Decided on March 12, 2013  Appellate Division, First Department we see the converse. 
 

"This is an action for, inter alia, legal malpractice arising from defendant attorney’s representation…

New York State Workers’ Compensation Bd. v SGRisk, LLC   013 NY Slip Op 50338(U)   Decided on March 1, 2013   Supreme Court, Albany County   Platkin, J. is an accounting malpractice and fraud case, but it has implications for legal malpractice, and the Court explains how causes of action for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and…