Silverstein v Nezhat 2024 NY Slip Op 32173(U) June 24, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 109486/2006 Judge: Kathy J. King is a final attempt to increase the award in a medical malpractice case via a claim of violation of Judiciary Law 487. It fails.

“The instant medical malpractice action was…

Brooklyn Tabernacle v Holland & Knight LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 31979(U) June 6, 2024 Supreme Court, Kings County Docket Number: Index No. 520533/2020 Judge: Leon Ruchelsman presents a fairly restricted view of the recurring question of what communications between Plaintiff and successor attorneys are discoverable in a legal malpractice claim against predecessor counsel.

“The…

Templeton v Roach 2024 NY Slip Op 03196 Decided on June 12, 2024 Appellate Division, Second Department does not explain the relationship between Plaintiff and J M & R Funding, LLC, but it definitely was not close enough for Plaintiff successfully to sue the attorneys.

“The defendant J M & R Funding, LLC (hereinafter J…

Kugel v Reynolds 2024 NY Slip Op 03173 Decided on June 12, 2024 Appellate Division, Second Department is another example of how real estate transactions, especially in New York comprise a large part of the legal malpractice milieu.

“In 2012, the defendant Kenneth Reynolds entered into a contract to sell certain real property located in…

Payne v Rosenberg, Minc, Falkoff & Wolfe, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 03341 Decided on June 18, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department demonstrates that in almost every setting where a client makes claims against an attorney the legal malpractice claim is primary, and potentially a breach of contract or a breach of fiduciary duty claim…

Bei Yang v Pagan Law Firm, P.C. 2024 NY Slip Op 03394 Decided on June 20, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department is a decision that is as short as possible. It comes in a case which seems to fit with those who would say that legal malpractice cases are all just “buyers’ remorse” or “dissatisfaction…

Getty v Schiavetta 2024 NY Slip Op 50697(U) Decided on May 18, 2024 Supreme Court, Westchester County Ondrovic, J. is a factually simple pro-se legal malpractice litigation with an interesting procedural twist. The legal malpractice claim comes after a mediated settlement. The issue is whether the attorney misled the client into thinking that the settlement…

Sciocchetti v Molinsek 2024 NY Slip Op 00116 [223 AD3d 1046] January 11, 2024
Appellate Division, Third Department is a case in which husband sues wife’s attorney on the theory that attorney and wife had a romantic relationship and worked together to hurt the husband financially. It does not succeed as a Judiciary Law 487…