A Long Island attorney must continue to defend a malpractice suit brought by a former client after an Eastern District judge partly denied the lawyer’s summary judgment motion.
Finding attorney Jeffrey Schwartz had confused the injuries claimed by real estate investor Paul Black, Judge Joanna Seybert (See Profile) said in Black v. Jeffrey Schwartz, 09-CV-2271, that Black “does not claim that he would necessarily have prevailed on the merits in the California action; rather, he simply argues that but for Defendant’s malpractice, he would not have been sanctioned.”
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