Legal Opinion
Achtman v. Kirby, McInerney & Squire, LLP
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 25, 2006No. Docket No. 04-5473-cvPublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs brought a putative class action against their former attorneys, Kirby, Mclnerney & Squire, LLP (“Kirby”) and Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman, *331LLP (“Bernstein”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sprizzo, J.). Both firms had served as class counsel in a separate earlier securities class action and it is the firms’ conduct in litigating the securities action that is now alleged by the plaintiffs to have constituted malpractice. The district court dismissed the malpractice complaint for failure to state a claim…
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