Legal Opinion
DiTondo v. Meagher
New York Supreme Court
Decided April 22, 2009PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
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Ferris D. Lebous, J.
This is a legal malpractice action. Plaintiffs Joseph N. DiTondo and Caralynn M. DiTondo allege that defendants Frederick J. Meagher, Jr. and Meagher & Meagher committed legal malpractice in an underlying federal case by failing to, among other things, research and advocate the legal proposition that the federal court sitting in diversity should have applied either California or New York’s comparative negligence law, rather than North Carolina’s contributory negligence law.
Defendants Frederick J. Meagher, Jr. and Meagher & Meagher (hereinafter…
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