How deceitful must deceit be to qualify for Judiciary Law § 487 application?  AmTrust N. Am., Inc. v Pavloff  2022 NY Slip Op 02862 Decided on April 28, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department gives us some idea.

“The amended complaint states a cause of action for legal malpractice and the documents submitted do not utterly…

The vast number of sibling v. sibling cases involving parental estates should not be surprising, but Altman v DiPreta  2022 NY Slip Op 02774 Decided on April 27, 2022 Appellate Division, Second Department is an interesting case which alleged deceit over the location of a ward of a Court Appointed conservatee.

“In 2010, Jeanne Altman…

Dial Car Inc. v Kordonsky  2022 NY Slip Op 31067(U) March 31, 2022 Supreme Court, Kings County Docket Number: Index No. 521900/2021 Judge: Leon Ruchelsman is a case which has been brought previously and is now in its second amended complaint.  Supreme Court dismissed the claims against the attorneys as too old.

“The Tuch and…

The facts in Hellman v Jacob  2022 NY Slip Op 31018(U)  March 29, 2022  Supreme Court, New York County  Docket Number: Index No. 156860/2021 Judge: Barbara Jaffe are just too astounding to try to encapsulate.

“Plaintiff alleges that from January of 2008 to December of 2010, a group of investors placed approximately $112 million with…

In a brisk and unequivocal grant of a CPLR 3211 motion, Justice Borrok makes some sweeping findings of fact in Walk v Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, 2022 NY Slip Op 50031(U) [74 Misc 3d 1203(A)], Decided on January 20, 2022, Supreme Court, New York.

“Upon the foregoing documents and for the reasons set forth on…

It is rare for a CPLR 3211 motion to dismiss a legal malpractice case is denied in Supreme Court and reversed on appeal.  That’s what happened in Frydco Capital Group, LLC v Carlton Fields, P.A.  2022 NY Slip Op 02619  Decided on April 21, 2022  Appellate Division, First Department.

“The legal malpractice claims should have…

Drasche v Edelman & Edelman  2022 NY Slip Op 00044 [201 AD3d 434]
January 6, 2022 Appellate Division, First Department is the story of an offer (or was there really one) which was not accepted, and if it was made, not communicated.  Beyond that information, the rest is hazy,

“Plaintiff retained defendant Edelman & Edelman,…

Joseph v Fensterman  2022 NY Slip Op 02398  Decided on April 13, 2022 Appellate Division, Second Department is a reversal, in part, of what we believe are all too common legal malpractice CPLR 3211 dismissals.

“In November 2014, the plaintiffs commenced this action, inter alia, to recover damages for violations of Judiciary Law § 487…