In the past 10 years, judiciary Law 487 claims have become more and more popular. Weaver v Hatem 2025 NY Slip Op 04931 Decided on September 10, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department is an example of such a claim being denied with little comment.
“In September 2019, the plaintiff commenced this action against Albert A.
In Parkoff v Rieger & Fried, LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 04914 Decided on September 10, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department Plaintiff had an otherwise good claim against the attorneys, and, after a while, asked to amend the complaint to add the otherwise good claim. Supreme Court said no. The AD reversed.
“In September 2021…
Salamone v Deily & Glastetter, LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 04846 Decided on September 04, 2025 Appellate Division, First Department demonstrates how clever loan scrivining can run afoul of usury laws and backfire.
“Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo Hagler, J.), entered May 8, 2024, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously…
In Prospect Capital Corp. v Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 32996(U) July 24, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 653941/2022 Judge Margaret A. Chan gives a primer on “at issue” privilege issues, how emails are currently handled under CPLR 2104 and how complicated discovery of written documents…
In Bethelite Community Baptist Church, Inc. v Shiryak, Bowman, Anderson, Gill & Kadochnikov, LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 32826(U) July 22, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 160036/2022 Judge: Paul A. Goetz. Plaintiff threads the eye of the needle and obtains partial summary judgment on liability. Here is how it…
In one stunning paragraph, in Campbell v Law Off. of Solomon Rosengarten 2025 NY Slip Op 04700 Decided on August 20, 2025 the Appellate Division, Second Department illustrates the oft-unheard of exception to the standard commencement date for the statute of limitations in legal malpractice.
The paragraph is highlighted here: “”To state a cause of…
Dodson v Adorama Camera Inc. 2025 NY Slip Op 51258(U) Decided on July 10, 2025
Supreme Court, New York County Lebovits, J. holds that there is no Judiciary Law 487 violation in opposing this particular action seeking to domesticate a valid sister-state judgment.
“This is an action to domesticate a South Carolina judgment obtained by…
Stinnett v Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC 2025 NY Slip Op 04677 Decided on August 13, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department is a decision that doesn’t give a lot of facts. What were the deficient allegations of potential success on the employment discrimination case? What were the allegations of that which was not done? We…
Continuing a line of cases containing the unique Schiller v. Bender Burroughs & Rosenthal allocution anomaly, Valentina v Beckerman 2025 NY Slip Op 04682 decided on August 13, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department finds that the pro-forma question “are you satisfied with your attorney’s representation?” kills a subsequent legal malpractice claim that she was “effectively…
Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v Lopresti 2025 NY Slip Op 51235(U) Decided on July 28, 2025 Supreme Court, Rockland County Fried, J. is a case where history has caught up with the current law. Foreclosures in the past were more mechanistic than today, and after a raft of scandalous “auto-signing” and other foreclosure problems…
