New York Firm That Allegedly Had Australia-Based Lawyer Draft Contract Hit With Malpractice Suit
Besides legal malpractice, the suit brings claims against both Garson brothers under a New Jersey statute allowing any person who suffers an ascertainable loss resulting from the unauthorized practice of law to seek actual damages and treble damages for costs incurred as a result of such activity.
November 12, 2021 at 02:54 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
A client's bungled business acquisition has prompted a New Jersey legal malpractice suit against Garson, Segal, Steinmetz, Fladgate and managing partner Robert Garson.
The New York firm was retained to represent The SCE Group, a Fort Lee, New Jersey, cybersecurity consultant in its acquisition of Cyber Reliance Advisors of Warren, New Jersey. But a series of missteps by Garson Segal made the acquisition more costly and complicated, according to the suit. Among those is the decision by Garson to farm out drafting of the sales contract to his brother, Yoni Garson, an attorney in Sydney, Australia.
An attorney for Cyber Reliance, Dain Dulaney, described that contract to colleagues as "a very non-standard, not particularly well drafted document" that included provisions not favorable to SCE. And Garson billed SCE for his brother's work on the drafting of the agreement, the suit says. To justify his brother's involvement, "Garson stated, in sum and substance, 'Anybody in the world can write a contract,'" according to the suit.
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