AmTrust N. Am., Inc. v Pavloff  2022 NY Slip Op 02862 (204 AD3d 599]  April 28, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department demonstrates the high bar to a Judiciary Law §487 claim.  Deceit is not enough.  It must be “egregious.”

“The amended complaint states a cause of action for legal malpractice and the documents submitted do…

Markov v Barrows  2022 NY Slip Op 04780 Decided on August 02, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department  could be a law school lesson on the meaning of the “but for” causation required in legal malpractice cases.

“Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Margaret A. Chan, J.), entered April 21, 2020, which, to the extent appealed…

Pruss v AmTrust N. Am. Inc.  2022 NY Slip Op 02884 [204 AD3d 620] April 28, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department  seems to be the story of a settlement offer made in good faith, where the offeror only found out later that its principal lacked the authority to make the offer in the first place. …

In an unusually detailed decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department reversed Supreme Court’s dismissal in Joseph v Fensterman  2022 NY Slip Op 02398 [204 AD3d 766] April 13, 2022.
“The Supreme Court should have denied that branch of the defendants’ motion which was to dismiss the first cause of action in the amended complaint, which…

Cassaforte Ltd. v Pourtavoosi  2022 NY Slip Op 32063(U)  June 30, 2022 Supreme Court, New York County  Docket Number: Index No. 451426/2020 Judge: Margaret A. Chan is a complicated real estate breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract case which cannot adequately be recited in a blog article.  However, this is a short version:…

Stevens v Wheeler  2022 NY Slip Op 31699(U) April 27, 2022 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 151129/2021 Judge: David B. Cohen is a complex statutory legal malpractice case which turns on how a Rhode Island Estate law treats a spouse in her fight with a son over the deceased father’s estate. …

Marcum LLP v L’abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP   2022 NY Slip Op 31913(U)  June 17, 2022  Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 151586/2021  Judge: Joel M. Cohen is a decision on a motion to reargue.  The legal malpractice case was earlier dismissed as too speculative.  The Fee claims remain.

“Plaintiff brought…

One Edgewater Equities LLC v Law Firm of Hall & Hall LLP     2022 NY Slip Op 31919(U) June 16, 2022 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 158110/2021 Judge: Barry R. Ostrager stands for the simple proposition that the failure to file a notice of appeal is a departure from good practice, and…