It is even harder to bring a successful legal malpractice case against the divorce attorney when the matter was settled.  Holtzman v Griffith  2018 NY Slip Op 04540  Decided on June 20, 2018
Appellate Division, Second Department, aside from its lesson on “account stated” tells us that a legal malpractice claim from a settled divorce…

King Tower Realty Corp. v G & G Funding Corp.  2018 NY Slip Op 05027  Decided on July 5, 2018  Appellate Division, Second Department illustrates the power of the statute of limitations.  While plaintiff may succeed in Supreme Court, many such decisions are reversed in the AD.  This is one.

“The plaintiff commenced this action…

Client is injured and several municipality defendants may be liable.  Attorneys fail to file a Notice of Claim within the requisite 90 days.  Attorneys are fired and new attorneys hired.  One year and 90 days pass.  Is there legal malpractice and if so, who might be responsible?

Liporace v Neimark & Neimark, LLP  2018 NY…

The Court of Appeals rarely takes cases. Here, in Mid-Hudson Val. Fed. Credit Union v Quartararo & Lois, PLLC  2018 NY Slip Op 04034  Decided on June 7, 2018  the Court of Appeals had to hear the case, as there was a two-judge dissent in the Appellate Division.  What was the case about?  You would…

Client is injured.  Attorney is hired.  Attorney negotiates a rate of pay.  Must the attorney look to see whether the client has insurance, and if so, how hard does the attorney have to look?  Remember, if there is insurance there may be an insurance lawyer lurking and about to take over from the inquiring attorney.…

ALBANY      The Court of Appeals addressed professional malpractice and duplicity.  Here we are discussing duplicitive causes of action, not deceit in the meaning of Judiciary Law § 487.

“The two questions on this appeal are whether plaintiff City of New York is an intended third-party beneficiary of the architectural services contract between plaintiff Dormitory Authority…

In the super-heated world of Manhattan real estate, $9.8 Million apartments are the middle children.  Not the biggest, not the smallest.  However, Riviera Prop. Holdings, LLC v Ferber Chan Essner & Coller, LLP  2017 NY Slip Op 27424 [58 Misc 3d 708]  July 31, 2017  Billings, J.
Supreme Court, New York County is an exceptional…