Real estate and legal malpractice go hand-in-hand so often in New York that there is practically a sub-genre of Manhattan apartment legal malpractice cases. They involve construction litigation, water intrusion litigation and of course, mortgage law litigation.
RSD857 LLC v Wright 2024 NY Slip Op 31674(U) May 13, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket…
Dabiri v Porter 2024 NY Slip Op 02686 Decided on May 15, 2024 Appellate Division, Second Department is a case that neither defendant took particularly seriously, as each appeared pro-se (probably meaning that they choose not to involve their insurers.)
“In 2006, the plaintiff retained the defendant Albert Van-Lare to represent him with respect to…
Gopstein v Bellinson Law, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 02592 Decided on May 09, 2024
Appellate Division, First Department, which we discussed this week for the legal malpractice portion of the case, also had a Judiciary Law 487 component.
“In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff, an attorney acting pro se, alleges that defendants Bellinson Law…
Gopstein v Bellinson Law, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 02592 Decided on May 09, 2024
Appellate Division, First Department is the curious case of a successful attorney-pro-se plaintiff who settled three claims in a row and then went on to sue the attorney who settled all three claims.
“In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff, an…
Salamone v Deily & Glastetter, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 31569(U) May 3, 2024
Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 160104/2022
Judge: Shlomo S. Hagler is a complicated legal malpractice case arising from a $2 Million dollar demand note, sale of Apple stock, questions of usury and a few appellate decisions. In…
What could be more complicated than explaining why an attorney’s errors doomed a generic drug defect products liability case, based upon medical malpractice in the prescribing of the generic allegedly defective drug in which there were nationwide class actions and federal preemption claims?
Schwartz v Oshman & Mirisola, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 31592(U) …
Kidron v Suris & Assoc., P.C. 2024 NY Slip Op 02503 Decided on May 07, 2024
Appellate Division, First Department reminds us that there are vast differences between the law in the First Department and the law in the Second Department, both of which are in the State of New York. Why this could be…
Scott v Leventhal 2024 NY Slip Op 31543(U) April 30, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 656211/2017 Judge: Debra A. James reveals a couple of sad truths about legal malpractice litigation. First, there are many twists and turns in the analysis of claims, especially claims that were never filed by the…
Walsam 316 v 316 Bowery Realty Corp. 2024 NY Slip Op 02288 Decided on April 30, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department is the story of a real estate/rent overcharge proceeding between sophisticated commercial entities which, almost incidentally included a legal malpractice claim. Amendment of the legal malpractice claim was denied.
“Order, Supreme Court, New York…
After reading the competing claims in Cotton v Kiperman 2024 NY Slip Op 31435(U)
April 22, 2024 Supreme Court, Kings County Docket Number: Index No. 515660/2023
Judge: Francois A. Rivera we wonder how Surrogate’s Court came to its conclusion. In any event Supreme Court dismisses on res judicata.
“The complaint alleges the following salient facts…
