Legal Opinion
Biegen v. Rooney
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 17, 2000PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, *265New York County (Stuart Cohen, J.), entered December 29, 1997, which, in an action for legal malpractice, granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and awarded them damages in the principal amount of $28,658.92 on their counterclaim for legal fees, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff claims that defendants committed malpractice by erroneously advising him, at sentencing, that any reduction for “good behavior” in his Federal sentence of 35 months for tax evasion would be applied to reduce his concurrent State sentence of 35…
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