Legal Opinion
Gotay v. Breitbart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 6, 2008PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lippman, P.J.
Plaintiff seeks to recover for the malpractice of her former attorneys in connection with the prosecution of her underlying medical malpractice action. The question presented is whether the legal malpractice action is time-barred.
The medical malpractice action arose out of injuries plaintiff allegedly sustained during her birth in August 1977. In early 1978, plaintiffs mother retained the law firm of Kaufman & Siegel, and that now-defunct firm commenced the malpractice action on plaintiffs behalf in April of the same year. After a long period of apparent…
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