Global NAPs, Inc. v. Awiszus

In the present action, Global NAPs, Inc. (Global), a telecommunications company, seeks to recover damages from its former attorneys, Martha Awiszus and David Kerman, and their respective law firms, Winokur, Serkey & Rosenberg, P.C. (Winokur), and Jackson Lewis, LLP (Jackson Lewis) (collectively, the defendants),2 for negligence, breach of contract, and loss of chance. The claims set forth in Global’s three-count complaint arose from the defendants’ failure to file a timely appeal from a jury verdict in excess of $1 million against Global in an underlying employment discrimination case (the…