Rosner v. Paley

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and the order of the Supreme Court which dismissed the third-party complaint, reinstated.

This action was commenced by plaintiff against her former attorneys, defendants and third-party plaintiffs, Sharretts, Paley, Carter & Blauvelt, P. C. (“Paley”), to recover damages as a result of legal malpractice in advising her to enter into a 1978 agreement in settlement of a dispute over the alleged mismanagement of the family trust. The agreement had designated plaintiff a cotrustee with her mother and…