Legal Opinion
Estate of Steinberg v. Harmon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 11, 1999PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Kapnick, J.), entered April 3, 1998, which, in an action for legal malpractice and violation of Judiciary Law § 487, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff cannot state a cause of action for legal malpractice based solely on defendant’s disqualification for an alleged conflict of interest in a separate litigation (see, Lavanant v General Acc. Ins. Co., 212 AD2d 450; Mills v Pappas, 174 AD2d 780, 782, lv denied 78 NY2d 1121, cert denied 504 US 971).…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Lavanant v. General Accident Insurance Co. of AmericaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- Mills v. PappasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Gonzalez v. GordonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
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- Jaroslawicz v. CohenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
- O'Connell v. KersonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
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