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…

We will be the first to admit surprise at the application of Anti-Slapp principles to legal malpractice cases. Nevertheless, references have started to creep into court’s decisions. Avanza Group, LLC v Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP 2025 NY Slip Op 32125(U) June 13, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No.

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…