The first set of attorneys obtained dismissal in 2014. Hyman v. Schwartz, 2014 NY Slip Op 01362 [114 AD3d 1110].   “In August 2007, plaintiff—then a Cornell University graduate student—was charged with violating the University’s Campus Code of Conduct by allegedly harassing a professor. Following disciplinary proceedings, the University’s Hearing Board sustained the harassment charge…

USHA SOHA Terrace, LLC v Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genovese & Gluck, P.C. 2014 NY Slip Op 31813(U),  July 9, 2014,  Supreme Court, New York County , Judge: Melvin L. Schweitzer is a fairly typical Judiciary Law 487 case.  It is a legal malpractice and Judiciary Law 487 case in which plaintiffs assert direct…

The NYLJ article did not discuss legal malpractice, but one wonders. Attorney who was a physician actually was in hosptial and observed plaintiff prior to surgery. There were problems, and plaintiff was referred to the physician-lawyer for a med mal case. Physician-lawyer didn’t tell client that he had seen him in the hospital [???] and…

Imagine a scene from a ’30s movie, set in the stix. A different life there, so different from the big city. For a long time both legal malpractice and medical malpractice clung to the “standards of the community” analysis, allowing a different standard of care or treatment for the country folk and the city folk.…

Here is a blog blurb from a California appeals blog on how difficult it is to sue a criminal defense attorney for legal malpractice after a conviction, whether by plea or verdict.

We reported this case, albeit from a different point of view a couple of weeks ago. Here is another blog report from the real estate attorney’s point of view. The blog is Closing Real Estate in Chicago. The blurb.

Rutgers puts the NJ appellate decisions online, and easily searchable. Here is a case which discusses time limits for a motion to reconsider, evidentiary showing necessary, new arguments on appeal, the use of a joint expert in a matrimonial, proximate cause, and the relationship between an attorney’s work and the materials with which he must…

Here is a long discussion of a commercial litigation over general and limited partnership distributions, and a legal malpractice case against the adversary’s attorney, which failed. Full Case