Dixie v Scheer 2025 NY Slip Op 30167(U) January 11, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 654690/2022 Judge: Andrea Masley is a chronocal of how an investment can be completely undermined by mergers and sales of assets so that the investment is completely lost. Were the attorneys a cause, is a…

Seibel v Scarola Zubatov Schaffin PLLC 2025 NY Slip Op 00067 [234 AD3d 457]
January 7, 2025 Appellate Division, First Department answers a murky question: How can a law firm set up an exit strategy in its retainer agreement and keep the fees already paid?

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jennifer G. Schecter, J.)…

Accounting malpractice is different from legal malpractice in several important ways. The first is the nature of yearly tax filings, which sets the structure for the application of the statute of limitations to a mistake in a single tax year and often rules out any question of the tolling of that statute because of continuing…

Accounting malpractice is different from legal malpractice in several important ways. The first is the nature of yearly tax filings, which sets the structure for the application of the statute of limitations to a mistake in a single tax year and often rules out any question of the tolling of that statute because of continuing…

Gans v Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, LLC 2026 NY Slip Op 01305 Decided on March 10, 2026 Appellate Division, First Department features some of the biggest players in the legal malpractice defense world, a surprise entry on the plaintiff’s side and a party in the underlying transactions with the same name but that has…

The client didn’t exercise a right of first refusal. Was it the attorney’s fault for not presenting a complete package to the client including a title report, or was it the client’s choice not to proceed?

In Sathyanarayanan v Moberg 2026 NY Slip Op 50237(U) Decided on February 27, 2026
Supreme Court, Suffolk County Pastoressa…

PCO 1500 Inv., L.P. v Ahmuty, Demers & McManus 2026 NY Slip Op 30664(U)
February 25, 2026 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 158852/2025 Judge: James d’Auguste quickly telegraphs its decision by finding that dismissal was in no way attributed to departures by the attorneys.

“Defendant Ahmuty, Demers & McManus (“Ahmuty”) seeks…

In Sebastiano v Bamundo, Zwal & Schermerhorn LLP 2026 NY Slip Op 01145
Decided on February 26, 2026 Appellate Division, First Department Plaintiff was injured on an interior stairway which lacked treads. The case was lost either because the stairway did not need treads or because the plaintiff expert failed to convince the court that…