Legal Opinion
Lattimore v. Bergman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 13, 1996PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, etc., the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated December 6, 1994, which denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
A settlement and release in an underlying action enable a plaintiff to obviate the full damage that would otherwise have flowed from his attorney’s negligence and do not preclude a subsequent action for legal malpractice where the settlement was compelled because of the mistakes of former counsel (see, Wille v…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Wille v. MaierNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
- Mazzei v. PokornyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
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