Amis v. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Opinion

KITCHING, Acting P. J.

INTRODUCTION

In this opinion we again acknowledge our Supreme Court’s near categorical prohibition against judicially crafted exceptions to the mediation confidentiality statutes and hold a malpractice plaintiff cannot circumvent mediation confidentiality by advancing inferences about his former attorney’s supposed acts or omissions during an underlying mediation.

Plaintiff John Amis (Amis) appeals from a summary judgment in favor of his former attorneys Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Naoki Kawada and John M. Gatti (collectively, GT). Amis’s operative complaint alleges GT…