Channel Fabrics, Inc. v Skwiersky, Alpert & Bressler LLP 2023 NY Slip Op 06471 [222 AD3d 512] December 19, 2023 Appellate Division, First Department illustrates the varying levels of service that accountants provide, and how the all important accountant’s retainer agreement can limit liability.”
“To state a claim for accountant malpractice, a complaint must allege…
Guliyev v Banilov & Assoc., P.C. 2023 NY Slip Op 05493 [221 AD3d 589] November 1, 2023 Appellate Division, Second Department concerns a claim that comes up a lot in potential client inquiries. Clients often say that the attorney “settled” the case without their approval, and forced them into a settlement. The general starting point…
As Rondeau v Houston 2024 NY Slip Op 00987 Decided on February 27, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department, reminds us, relief in Judiciary Law 487 is not “lightly given.”
“Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), entered on or about September 15, 2015, which, to the extent appealed…
Sang Seok Na v Pulvers, Pulvers & Thompson, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 00978
Decided on February 27, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department is the rare case of legal malpractice that has been heard in both the First and Second Departments. It is similarly rare in the number and length of cases associated with the…
Kaufman v Boies Schiller Flexner 2024 NY Slip Op 00804 Decided on February 15, 2024
Appellate Division, First Department is a case where a second bite at the apple fails.
Initially, “The complaint stated a limited cause of action for breach of contract against BSF. The complaint sufficiently alleged that BSF overbilled or billed for…
Allen v Thompson 2024 NY Slip Op 00929 Decided on February 22, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department, in what may be a pyrrhic victory (Defendant attorney is pro-se), is an unusual set of facts.
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In this case, plaintiff alleges that on or about February 28, 2012, she was terminated from Chanel after nineteen years…
Century Prop. & Cas. Ins. Corp. v McManus & Richter 2024 NY Slip Op 00799
Decided on February 15, 2024 Appellate Division, First Department
KAPNICK, J. is a decision with great implications for insurers regarding how defense attorneys might be liable to the carrier for mistakes made during the defense of cases. The question of…
457 Warburton Ave, LLC v Monna Lissa, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 30423(U) February 7, 2024
Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 651358/2020 Judge: Louis L. Nock is quite unusual, and discusses a unique application of the statute of limitations to a legal malpractice (“attorney malpractice”) claim.
“This matter was initially brought…
Plaintiff loses an appeal to the Second Circuit, and sues the Attorneys in Jackson v Law Offs. of Peter Sverd, PLLC 2024 NY Slip Op 30413(U) February 6, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 153586/2023 Judge: Lisa S. Headley.
The Court found that there was no support for the legal malpractice…
Courts are institutionally wary of JL 487 cases. This wariness is demonstrated in Radiation Oncology Servs. of Cent. N.Y., P.C. v Warren 2024 NY Slip Op 00484
Decided on February 1, 2024 Appellate Division, Third Department.
“As more fully set forth in two prior decisions of this Court (Radiation Oncology Servs. of Cent. N.Y., …
