After reading the first few lines of this case, Hagans v Dell 2023 NY Slip Op 00846 Decided on February 15, 2023 Appellate Division, Second Department, we expected to see a discussion of notice or storm timing in the snow and ice personal injury world. But, no. It deals with individual liability in LLPs.
“Dell…
RTW Retailwinds, Inc. v Colucci & Umans 2023 NY Slip Op 00831 Decided on February 14, 2023 Appellate Division, First Department represents a rare instance of the Appellate Division examining all of the reasons why a legal malpractice case is dismissed early on in a case. There were three or more acts by the defendant…
In this unusual case, Zanani v Scott Seidler Family Trust 2023 NY Slip Op 00836
Decided on February 14, 2023 Appellate Division, First Department, the attorney brought the claim for legal fees as a special proceedings, seeing a declaratory judgment that he was owed money. Supreme Court analyzed his claim, and dismissed it in favor…
Tsionis v Sekas Law Group, LLC 2023 NY Slip Op 30423(U) February 9, 2023
Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 158575/2016
Judge: David B. Cohen is an example of a well-known subset of the New York legal malpractice world – real estate problems.
“In January 2005, plaintiffs, as owners, sold commercial…
Martin v Claude Castro & Assoc. PLLC 2023 NY Slip Op 50099(U) Decided on February 9, 2023 Supreme Court, New York County Lebovits, J. illustrates the wide breadth and strength of the attorney-judgment rule in legal malpractice.
“This is a legal-malpractice action. Defendants, Claude Castro and Associates PLLC, Claude Castro, Esq., and Daniel Paul Martin…
Gerzog v Goldfarb 2022 NY Slip Op 04120 [206 AD3d 554] June 28, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department discusses the fiduciary duties an accountant may have to its client.
“Plaintiff was an attorney at the law firm of nominal defendant Goldfarb & Gerzog. He claims that he and defendant Goldfarb were partners at the firm…
The issue of the reach of a post-answer CPLR 3211 motion and whether it should have been brought as a CPLR 3212 motion came up in an accounting malpractice case in Pioneer Bank v Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte, CPAs, P.C. 2022 NY Slip Op 22316 [77 Misc 3d 360] October 4, 2022 Platkin, J. Supreme…
In Fierro v Yellen 2022 NY Slip Op 32959(U) August 31, 2022 Supreme Court, Kings County Docket Number: Index No. 523796/2021 Judge: Ingrid Joseph, a case that wended its way through Kings Supreme, and on to the Second Department, everyone in the proceedings take fluid positions on whether there was fraud, whether there was a…
Discovery errors lead to a large number of legal malpractice claims. in Comprehensive Mental Assessment & Med. Care, P.C. v Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, PLLC 2023 NY Slip Op 00408 Decided on February 1, 2023 Appellate Division, Second Department the legal malpractice case was lost on discovery errors in the actual case itself.
“In 2012, the…
Darby Scott, Ltd. v Michael S. Libock & Co. LLC CPAs 2022 NY Slip Op 06746 [210 AD3d 582] November 29, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department discusses the question of continuous representation tolls to the statute of limitations in accounting malpractice cases. Often, the statute is calculated by reference to tax filings and tax years. …
