Sanders Equities LLC v Maldonado 2025 NY Slip Op 30694(U) March 3, 2025 Supreme Court, Nassau County Docket Number: Index No. 605681/2022 Judge: Sharon M.J. Gianelli is the rare story of an apparently pro-se attorney defendant having his answer stricken in a legal malpractice case.
“By the Court’s most recent Decision and Order, dated October…
We reported on this case when it was decided in Supreme Court and now after a couple of years it has been decided in the Appellate Division in Altman v Orseck 2025 NY Slip Op 00940 Decided on February 19, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department.
“The plaintiffs, Charles Altman and Altman Law Group, LLC, commenced…
9/11 continues to cast a long shadow over the personal injury world, and will until 2090. That is the lesson of Mollahan v Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 30644(U) February 25, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 195690/2022 Judge: David B. Cohen. As the law…
Kraemer v Edelstein 2025 NY Slip Op 30623(U) February 24, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 153243/2024 Judge: Ariel D. Chesler is summed up simply “Plaintiff has come to this Court with nothing short of an unintelligible conspiracy theory not a cause of action.”
“Between 2014 and 2015, plaintiff was involved…
Kliger-Weiss Infosystems, Inc. v Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. 2025 NY Slip Op 00956
Decided on February 19, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department is that very rare reversal of summary judgment at the appellate level. The Decision illustrates the depth to which the Courts will go in dissecting the “but for” causation in the underlying case.…
In DiCarlo v Russo Law Group, P.C. 2025 NY Slip Op 00843 Decided on February 13, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department it appears that a complaint was served, a complaint was demanded and a stipulation to extend the time to serve the complaint was reached. The stipulation was for an additional one-month’s time. No further…
In McNaughton v 5 W. 14 Owners Corp. 2025 NY Slip Op 00831 Decided on February 13, 2025 Appellate Division, First Department Plaintiff lost at the Supreme Court level and was sanctioned. On appeal, the sanctions were vacated, but the dismissals were affirmed.
“Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nancy M. Bannon, J.), entered on…
Milennium Dev. & Constr., LLC v Pick 2025 NY Slip Op 00853 Decided on February 13, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department brings to mind the proverb (from Plutarch and Suetonius) that Caesar’s wife should be free from suspicion as well as from accusation. In this case, which of course alleges attorney error, the matter was…
Silver v Baker Botts L.L.P. 2025 NY Slip Op 00732 Decided on February 06, 2025 Appellate Division, First Department tells us that the burden is not high.
“It is well established that the relationship of client and counsel is one of fiduciary reliance and that “[t]he duty to deal fairly, honestly and with undivided loyalty…
It’s unusual to obtain a default judgment against an attorney, but even more unusual to lost the resulting inquest when no damages are demonstrated. That’s what happened in Bobbo Prop. Mgt., Inc. v Faulkner 2025 NY Slip Op 00646 Decided on February 5, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department.
“In May 2013, the plaintiff commenced this…
