Vallinoto v. DiSandro

I respectfully dissent because I believe that the defendant Edmond A. DiSandro’s sexual depredation of the plaintiff while serving as her divorce attorney constituted a flagrant breach of the fiduciary duties he owed to his client and that this breach constituted legal malpractice. When, as here, a lawyer handling a divorce for a client enters into a sexual relationship with that client, I believe that lawyer has committed legal malpractice, regardless of the legal results obtained and how well the lawyer has performed the necessary legal services.7 Such *844misconduct is “a wrong that is…