The New York Law Journal reported a “drastic sanction” against a medical malpractice defense firm today in Lucas v Stam  2017 NY Slip Op 01190  Decided on February 15, 2017  Appellate Division, Second Department.

“This medical malpractice action arises from ophthalmological surgery performed on September 5, 2007, on the plaintiff’s decedent by the defendant William…

Jury verdicts in the Legal Malpractice field are rare.  Most cases are settled, and the balance are disposed of in motion practice.  We are proud to share a New York Law Journal news article with you about this Legal Malpractice Jury Verdict from Supreme Court, Westchester County.

“A jury awarded nearly $400,000 to a Westchester…

Salyamov v Lyhovsky  2017 NY Slip Op 00929  Decided on February 7, 2017  Appellate Division, First Department is a very short, very direct reversal of summary judgment in which the AD reverses the opinion of Justice Wright, who has since been transferred from Supreme Court to Family Court.  How could there have been such a…

Legal malpractice is an arcane and complicated body of law.  It has certain doctrines and principles that do not show up in other areas of the law.  Some are found in medical malpractice and some are found nowhere else.  The attorney-judgment rule is one doctrine that is shared with medical malpractice. The “but for “…

Continuing to review the 2016 Judiciary Law § 487 Cases:

Titan Capital ID, LLC v Eshaghpour  2016 NY Slip Op 31925(U)  October 13, 2016
Supreme Court, New York County  Docket Number: 650128/2016  Judge: O. Peter Sherwood

On Oral Argument the JL 487 was withdrawn on consent

M.T. Packaging, Inc. v Fung Kai Hoo  2016…

We continue to review Judiciary Law §487 cases frp 2016:

19.  Kaplan v Valley Natl. Bank  2016 NY Slip Op 51108(U) [52 Misc 3d 1210(A)]  Decided on July 20, 2016  Supreme Court, Suffolk County  Emerson, J.

“The plaintiff’s mother, Marilyn Kaplan, executed a will in 1994, leaving her interest in the home that she shared…

We’re proud to share our article in today’s New York Law Journal:  The Statute of Limitations in Legal Malpractice.

There are some differences between legal malpractice and accounting malpractice, but far more similarities.  One major difference, as set forth in New York State Workers’ Compensation Bd. v Fuller & LaFiura, CPAs, P.C.  2017 NY Slip Op 00225  Decided on January 12, 2017
Appellate Division, Third Department is that traditionally accountants do work in one…