Legal Opinion
Ben-Zvi v. Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman L. L. P.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 28, 2000PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Kapnick, J.), entered July 20, 1999, dismissing the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiffs cause of action for legal malpractice based on defendants’ representation of him in a Federal criminal proceeding is precluded by plaintiffs undisturbed conviction on some of the charges in that proceeding, an obstacle that plaintiff cannot avoid by pleading a purported cause of action for breach of contract alleging that defendants failed to perform their contract to represent him with due care…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Callas v. EisenbergAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- Kaplan v. SachsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
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