NINETEEN NEW YORK PROPS. LTD. P'SHIP v. UK JEE KIM


251 A.D.2d 104 (1998)

674 N.Y.S.2d 642

Nineteen New York Properties Limited Partnership, Appellant-Respondent, v. Uk Jee Kim et al., Defendants, and Abraham & Silver, Respondent-Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 11, 1998


The IAS Court properly found that defendant-appellant law firm might be liable to plaintiff despite the absence of privity between the two, since "an attorney may be held liable for injuries sustained by a third party [i.e., a nonclient] as a consequence of the attorney's wrongful or improper exercise of authority, or where the attorney has committed fraud or collusion or a malicious or tortious act" (see, Singer v Whitman...

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