Citing an exception of “special circumstances,” a state appeals court has upheld a $1.8 million malpractice judgment against a New York lawyer awarded to the substitute executor of an estate, who is also the deceased’s daughter, even though the attorney had no privity with the estate.

Arnold Blatt of the Law Offices of Arnold W. Blatt in Rockland County must pay the malpractice judgment levied against him after a bench trial before Westchester County Supreme Court Justice Gerald Loehr, ruled the Appellate Division, Second Department court.

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