Editor’s Note: The following article is based on findings about what the four Appellate Division departments have been deciding about legal malpractice during the last five years. Future articles will continue to share findings from the data set, containing 357 published decisions.
Legal malpractice cases have always been hard to win in New York…but when plaintiffs are real estate clients, they fare a bit better. The transactional nature of real-estate malpractice provides courts with a relatively straightforward story of how a client lost money. Attorneys may be held responsible for these damages if they breached their duty of care.
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