PROCANIK BY PROCANIK v. CILLO


226 N.J. Super. 132 (1988)

543 A.2d 985

PETER PROCANIK, AN INFANT BY HIS GUARDIAN AD LITEM, ROSEMARIE PROCANIK, PLAINTIFF, AND ROSEMARIE PROCANIK AND MICHAEL PROCANIK, INDIVIDUALLY, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, CROSS-APPELLANTS, v. JOSEPH PETER CILLO, HERBERT LANGER, ERNEST P. GREENBERG, AND HAROLD A. SHERMAN, DEFENDANTS, AND LEE S. GOLDSMITH AND GREENSTONE, GREENSTONE AND NAISHULER, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS, CROSS-RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc S. Friedman argued the cause for appellant-cross-respondent Lee S. Goldsmith (Kalb, Friedman and Siegelbaum, attorneys; Marc S. Friedman and Joel R. Glucksman, on the brief).

Richard D. Catenacci argued the cause for appellant-cross-respondent Greenstone, Greenstone & Naishuler (Connell, Foley & Geiser, attorneys; Adrian M. Foley, Jr. and Richard D. Catenacci, of counsel; Richard D. Catenacci, Kevin R. Gardner and Brian T. Murnane, on the brief).

Myron W. Kronisch argued the cause for respondents-cross-appellants (Kronisch, Schkeeper & Lesser, attorneys; Myron W. Kronisch, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER, BILDER and SKILLMAN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, P.J.A.D.

This case sounds in legal malpractice. Defendants Lee Goldsmith, an attorney at law of this state having special expertise in medical malpractice litigation, and Greenstone, Greenstone and Naishuler, the New Jersey firm with which he was associated at the time the operative events occurred, appeal from a jury verdict finding them liable to plaintiffs Rosemarie and Michael Procanik and their son Peter because...

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