Attorneys received a victory in the state Appellate Division

Attorneys received a victory in the state Appellate Division. The case was a legal malpractice case brought against our client, a matrimonial attorney, by a disgruntled former client who, after being sued to recover the attorney's fee, countersued alleging malpractice. The trial judge granted summary judgment on the grounds that by settling the underlying matrimonial action, the plaintiff could not then sue his attorney for malpractice. During the pendency of the appeal, the State Supreme Court issued a decision which clarified some of the key points of the law in this area. The Appellate Division, applying this new law, found that the plaintiff's malpractice claim was properly dismissed because he failed to provide adequate factual and expert evidence to support his allegations of negligence and the Court affirmed.