Legal Opinion
Lawrence v. Miller
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 28, 2014PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
Beginning in 1983, defendant law firm Graubard Miller (Graubard or the law firm) represented Alice Lawrence (Lawrence) and her three children in litigation arising from the death of her husband and their father, Sylvan Lawrence (decedent), a real estate developer. At the time of decedent’s death in 1981, his company owned commercial real estate in New York City valued at an estimated $1 billion. Decedent’s brother and lifelong equal business partner, Seymour Cohn (Cohn), was executor of the estate. Cohn resisted selling decedent’s properties and distributing the…
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