In many ways legal malpractice and medical malpractice are first cousins. In other ways, attorneys get a far more beneficial set of rules in how they are treated by their fellow attorneys in legal malpractice claim settings.
One example is
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It Takes A Lot To Adequately Plead Judiciary Law 487 Claims
Grasso v Guarino 2024 NY Slip Op 02692 Decided on May 15, 2024Appellate Division, Second Department illustrates the quanta of allegations necessary to state a cause of action in Judiciary Law 487 claims.
“In 2011, the defendant represented the Town…
A Tangled Mess in a Short Sale
Real estate and legal malpractice go hand-in-hand so often in New York that there is practically a sub-genre of Manhattan apartment legal malpractice cases. They involve construction litigation, water intrusion litigation and of course, mortgage law litigation.
Doctors and Lawyers!
Dabiri v Porter 2024 NY Slip Op 02686 Decided on May 15, 2024 Appellate Division, Second Department is a case that neither defendant took particularly seriously, as each appeared pro-se (probably meaning that they choose not to involve their insurers.)…
Dismissed for The Wrong Reasons, But Still Dismissed
Gopstein v Bellinson Law, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 02592 Decided on May 09, 2024Appellate Division, First Department, which we discussed this week for the legal malpractice portion of the case, also had a Judiciary Law 487 component.
“In this…
Plaintiff Succeeded On Three Claims and Still Sued for Legal Malpractice
Gopstein v Bellinson Law, LLC 2024 NY Slip Op 02592 Decided on May 09, 2024Appellate Division, First Department is the curious case of a successful attorney-pro-se plaintiff who settled three claims in a row and then went on to sue…
Half a Loaf and No Legal Malpractice
Salamone v Deily & Glastetter, LLP 2024 NY Slip Op 31569(U) May 3, 2024Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 160104/2022Judge: Shlomo S. Hagler is a complicated legal malpractice case arising from a $2 Million dollar demand note,…
A Super Complicated Medical Malpractice, Products Liability Legal Malpractice Dismissed For Failures to Explain the Case
What could be more complicated than explaining why an attorney’s errors doomed a generic drug defect products liability case, based upon medical malpractice in the prescribing of the generic allegedly defective drug in which there were nationwide class actions and…
Collectability in the First Department
Kidron v Suris & Assoc., P.C. 2024 NY Slip Op 02503 Decided on May 07, 2024Appellate Division, First Department reminds us that there are vast differences between the law in the First Department and the law in the Second Department,…
Didn’t Start A Case, Still in the Case
Scott v Leventhal 2024 NY Slip Op 31543(U) April 30, 2024 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 656211/2017 Judge: Debra A. James reveals a couple of sad truths about legal malpractice litigation. First, there are many twists…