How does one prove that the settlement was not good enough, given the circumstances? How does one prove that had this or that taken place, that Husband would have paid less, and more to the point, how does one prove that Husband was the victim rather than the beneficiary of the settlement? It’s all in…

Plaintiff is injured in 1982 and again in 1983.  This month a legal malpractice case arising from the two cases was partially dismissed in Supreme Court, New York County.  In the interim the world has changed.

Deutsch v Ullman  2012 NY Slip Op 30748(U)  March 23, 2012  Sup Ct, New York County  Docket Number: 110595/2010 …

In Eighth Ave. Garage Corp. v Kaye Scholer LLP   2012 NY Slip Op 02402   Decided on March 29, 2012  Appellate Division, First Department  Kaye Scholer defended itself, and obtained dismissal.  Schwartz & Ponterio were unable to save the case for plaintiff.   
 

The Court held that "Plaintiffs failed to allege facts in support of their…

It’s difficult to say which is the more perplexing problem in this case.  Is it the loose procedure in which a client put down $ 1.1 million on a condo with few safeguards, or the manner in which the legal malpractice case is being handled?  in Cheong v Lau  2012 NY Slip Op 30725(U)  March…

Justice Goodman of Supreme Court, New York County hads a caseload full of legal malpractice cases before she retired. Here is an accounting malpractice case coming as a counterclaim for accounting fees, but the idea is just the same. InPerelson Weiner, LLP v Allison NY Slip Op 2010 31679  06/29/2010 Supreme Court, New York County…

Attorney fees are an endless source of conflict. They have always been an endless source of conflict. We faintly remember from high school that Abraham Lincoln was involved in attorney fee litigation. Today is no exception. in Landa v Blocker   2011 NY Slip Op 00191  ;Appellate Division, Second Department we see attorney fees in the…

The Law sites are consistently filled with stories of partners leaving firm A for firm B, and sometimes taking assoicates with them. Law firms fold and are re-cast as new firms. How does this restelss movement affect legal malpractice clients?

In The New Kayak Pool Corp. v Kavinoky Cook LLP ;2010 NY Slip Op 05176…

We commonly get two types of fraud letters, and they come all the time.  One recent type is the "collaborative divorce" letter in which an offshore spouse needs help collecting a large equitable distribution check from the US spouse.  Another type is the offshore large corporation that needs help collecting a debt from a US…