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Subsequent Cases Do Not Always Make New Law

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on August 16, 2024
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In Jobar Holding Corp. v Halio 2024 NY Slip Op 32650(U) July 10, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 655689/2017 Judge: Joel M. Cohen, plaintiff attempted to use a subsequent case decision to revive a dismissed case via amendment, The attempt failed.

“By order dated September 23, 2019, the Court (Scarpulla…

Real Estate and Legal Malpractice on Madison Avenue

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on August 14, 2024
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Slifka v Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 32788(U) August 9, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 155742/2023 Judge: Melissa A. Crane is yet another in the vast universe of legal malpractice cases associated with real estate, and in this case in a big way. Joseph…

Dismissal Reversed After No Arbitration

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on August 9, 2024
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Villaver v Paglinawan 2024 NY Slip Op 04159 Decided on August 7, 2024
Appellate Division, Second Department concerns a situation where plaintiffs sued defendants who moved to dismiss based upon an arbitration clause. The arbitration was closed when Plaintiff said he could not afford the arbitration and Defendants did not respond.

“Thereafter, the plaintiff commenced…

Accountants Win Dismissal of Case

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on August 7, 2024
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Gordon v Vladislav Tsirkin CPA & Co., LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 03682 Decided on July 3, 2024 Appellate Division, Second Department is one of those appellate cases where the Court basically did not like the complaint. The decision uses the general language of a “failure to sufficiently allege” the claims. No particular facts are…

Judiciary Law 487 Claim Successfully Stated

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on August 5, 2024
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Peck v Milbank LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 32596(U) July 29, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 152290/2022 Judge: Andrew Borrok describes why the claim for violation of Judiciary Law 487 resisted a dismissal motion.

“The defendants are not however entitled to dismissal of the claim sounding in violation of Judiciary…

An Unusual Attorney Fee Arbitration Arrangement

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on July 31, 2024
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Jones Law Firm, P.C. v Keep Healthy, Inc. 2024 NY Slip Op 32519(U) July 15, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 653385/2023 Judge: Kathleen Waterman-Marshall is the story of a law firm which has a captive arbitration firm and requires arbitrations for attorney fee claims to be arbitrated before the…

A Judiciary Law Claim Fails

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on July 29, 2024
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Jones Law Firm, P.C. v J Synergy Green, Inc. 2024 NY Slip Op 31127(U) April 2, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 653730/2023 Judge: Lyle E. Frank is a familiar attorney fee claim with a legal malpractice defense and counterclaim. More novel is the Judiciary Law 487 claim against Professional Arbitration…

Lots of Litigation over Investments, Some Good, Some Precluded

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on July 26, 2024
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Morris v Zimmer 2024 NY Slip Op 02314 [227 AD3d 696] May 1, 2024
Appellate Division, Second Department appears to be a pro se litigation over unauthorized trading in a brokerage account. The case wended its way to US District Court, to the Second Circuit, to a certiorari request to the US Supreme Court, and…

Not Duplicative, But Still Dismissible

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on July 22, 2024
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Gopstein v Bellinson Law, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 02592 [227 AD3d 465] May 9, 2024
Appellate Division, First Department is really the story of an attorney who became a serial legal malpractice litigant. It started with a personal injury case, a settlement, a legal malpractice case, a settlement, an attorney fee case, a settlement…

Chronic and Extreme, and Even Then, Not Lightly Given

By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on July 19, 2024
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Grasso v Guarino 2024 NY Slip Op 02692 [227 AD3d 872] May 15, 2024
Appellate Division, Second Department demonstrates how rarely Judiciary Law 487 relief is permitted on motions to dismiss, and even more rarely applied after all motion practice. the AD recited the various standards of the need for “an intent to deceive” as…

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