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Judgment and Legal Malpractice

By (Andrew Lavoott Bluestone)

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LOK PRAKASHAN, LTD. -v.- RALPH A. BERMAN, DAVIDOFF MALITO & HUTCHER, LLP,
No. 09-0136-cv; UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT;2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 22988 is an example of the Court's continued romance with the concept that litigation is an art and not a science.

What is a question of judgment? " "A complaint that essentially alleges either an 'error of judgment' or a 'selection of one among several reasonable courses of action' fails to state a claim for malpractice." Id.

The District Court concluded that "[b]ecause there is ample evidence in the record that Defendants' omission of the specified document was a conscious and reasonable decision regarding trial strategy, not negligence, and the omission of the document was not the proximate cause of any loss, Plaintiff has failed to show the elements required to support a claim of legal malpractice." [*4] Order of November 1, 2005. We agree and, substantially for the reasons stated by the District Court in its well-reasoned orders of November 1, 2005 and December 12, 2008, find plaintiff's arguments to be without merit."

Full post as published by New York Attorney Malpractice Blog on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).