DKSJ, LLC v Cohen 2025 NY Slip Op 32574(U) July 14, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 653100/2024 Judge: Margaret A. Chan is part of a larger group of cases including a legal malpractice case. The legal malpractice case, not entirely fleshed out here, appears to be a question of whether…

It is of course ironic when a legal malpractice case is dismissed for failure to engage in discovery. This appears to be the holding in Manno v Hayes Law Practice, PLLC 2025 NY Slip Op 04167 Decided on July 16, 2025
Appellate Division, Second Department.

“The plaintiffs commenced this action, inter alia, to recover damages…

Ginsburg & Misk LLP v Eshaghpour 2025 NY Slip Op 32419(U) July 9, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 161655/2024 Judge: Mary V. Rosado discusses what showing is necessary to demonstrate that settlement of the underlying case was “effectively compelled” by mistakes of counsel.

“From 2019 until July 2024, Plaintiff represented…

Medley Mgt., IncLowenstein Sandler, LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 32436(U) July 6, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 651987/2022 Judge: Joel M. Cohen is a thoughtfully written grant of summary judgment in a legal malpractice case. Here is the intro:

“At a high level, this case involves a financially troubled client…

In Matter of Blyer 2025 NY Slip Op 04005 Decided on July 2, 2025 Appellate Division, Second Department
Per Curiam., the attorney did a lot of things commented on by the Appellate Division and the Referee. Amongst them was the failure to advise the client of a potential malpractice claim.

“The amended petition contains seven…

Claude Mayo Constr. Co., Inc. v Barclay Damon LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 03897 Decided on June 27, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department chooses to duck this question. Since JL 487 is a NY statute, and requires that deceit take place during a pending litigation, the question of whether litigation in Federal Court meets the…

130 E. 18 Owners Corp. v Axelrod 2025 NY Slip Op 32210(U) June 23, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 158632/2024 illustrates the common problem of what to do when the statute of limitations for legal malpractice is approaching yet the underlying case (where the malpractice took place) is not yet…

We get little direct description of the legal malpractice claim, but a guess from the decision is that Plaintiff argued that she did not get the settlement bargain that she expected, and that the attorney committed legal malpractice. The decision in Christian v Paul B. Weitz & Assoc., P.C. 2025 NY Slip Op 51001(U) Decided…