A post-matrimonial legal malpractice case has some elements of sadness. From the court’s decision, desperation is apparent. Wife has divorced, and four years later still is trying to get what she believes is justice. Attorney seems to be caught in a cycle of client dissatisfaction and litigation.
What finally emerges as the reason for the…
What happens when four people get together and decide to open a restaurant? Often enough, they are friends, and have only the highest regard for each other. They trust each other, and have high expectations that each is ready to get going and get the business started. It does not always work that way. We see, in Battaglia …
Attorney represents X and then later represents X’s opponent in litigation. Aside from the fact that the opponent is X’s mother, when does such representation cause a conflict and legal malpractice? We see in Benaquista v Burke ;2010 NY Slip Op 04896 ;Decided on June 10, 2010
Appellate Division, Third Department that there is no…
Justice Schack’s decision in Taveras v American Tr. Ins. Co.; 2011 NY Slip Op 51831(U) ; decided on October 17, 2011 ;Supreme Court, Kings County ; Schack, J. is an eye-opener. Basically put, this was a three car accident in which American Transit had two of the cars. Each of the cars had a $…
Cases rarely are dismissed by the Court for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the merits, almost never sua sponte. Here is an exception. This plaintiff was enjoined from bringing any further litigation in either State or Federal court for anything to do with his former apartment. Nevertheless…
Plaintiff-.Attorney in this RICO action sues other attorneys who have brought legal malpractice cases, some against him. Plaintiff was at one time a major player in the plaintiff’s legal malpractice world. Now, in W. ROBERT CURTIS, Sc.D., J.D, CURTIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants, – v – THE LAW OFFICES OF DAVID M. BUSHMAN, ESQ., DAVID M. …
is it legal malpractice for an attorney to answer a information subpoena concerning his retainer agreement with a client if the answer does not contain privileged communications? We will not know the answer to this question from GREGORY P. MORSON, Plaintiff, -against KREINDLER & KREINDLER, LLP, Defendant.09 CV 2994 (DRH)(ARL)UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT…
When practitioners in Legal Malpractice stay in the area long enough, older cases they handled come back to save or haunt them. A prime example isDeNatale v Santangelo ; 2009 NY Slip Op 06398 ;; Appellate Division, Second Department . Here the defendant law firm wins dismissal based upon a now well known case.
We’ve seen busses cloaked in ads, and we’ve seen big big Times Square building ads, but who knew there was a name for this style of billboarding? Who knew there would be a legal malpractice angle to it? We did not, until today. From Law.Com:
"Welcome to the latest round in what might be…
Fighting in the trenches during WW1 was said to be dirty and without any rules. It often seems that the same situation obtains for third-party litigation between law firms, one of which was responsible for failing to file a mortgage. Fighting over money is the domain of attorneys, it can be dirty, and seemingly without rules and…
