Proving a lawyer’s dereliction of duty to a client can come back to haunt him many years later, a New Jersey appeals court has reinstated a malpractice suit against a lawyer over his roles in two land deals two decades apart.
The judges reversed dismissal of the suit, Shu v. Butensky, A-2396-07, finding that where a clause in a 1986 contract was meant to “survive the passage of time,” the lawyer could be found to have a professional responsibility to protect it in a transaction nearly 20 years later.
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