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DIXON TICONDEROGA CO. v. ESTATE OF O'CONNOR

Nos. 99-6054, 99-6055, 99-6056.

248 F.3d 151 (2001)

DIXON TICONDEROGA COMPANY, Appellant in No. 99-6056, v. ESTATE OF William F. O'CONNOR; Schumann Hession Kennelly & Dorment; Schumann Hanlon & Panepinto; Harold Friedman; Kirsten, Simon, Friedman, Allen, Cherin & Lutkin; Greenberg Margolis; Franzblau Dratch & Friedman; Stryker Tams & Dill; Schumann Hanlon O'Connor & McCrossin. Harold Friedman; Stryker Tams & Dill, Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. DECOTIIS, FITZPATRICK & GLUCK; Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman Engelmyer & Ewing; Steven J. Engelmyer; Lisa E. Brody, Third-Party Defendants. Harold FRIEDMAN, Appellant in No. 99-6055, Franzblau Dratch, f/k/a Greenberg Margolis, Appellant in No. 99-6056.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed April 23, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Engelmyer, ESQUIRE, (Argued), Lisa E. Brody, ESQUIRE, Heather R. Weiss, ESQUIRE, Kleinbard, Bell & Brecker, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Dixon Ticonderoga.

Andrew M. Epstein, ESQUIRE, (Argued), Lampf, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow, West Orange, NJ, Counsel for Harold Friedman.

Richard T. Garofalo, ESQUIRE, (Argued), Thomas D. Flinn, ESQUIRE, Garrity, Graham, Favetta & Flinn, Montclair, NJ, Counsel for Franzblau Dratch.

Peter DeSalvo, Jr., ESQUIRE, (Argued), Soriano, Henkel, Salerno, Biehl & Matthews, Roseland, NJ, Counsel for Estate of William F. O'Connor; Schumann Hession Kennelly & Dorment; Schumann Hanlon & Panepinto; Schumann Hanlon O'Connor and McCrossin.

Before: BECKER, Chief Judge, AMBRO and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

These are consolidated appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a two-tiered legal malpractice action governed by New Jersey law. The seeds of this case were sown in the early 1980s when Plaintiff Dixon Ticonderoga Company (Dixon) sold a piece of industrial property to a company named the Dixon Venture (Venture). Defendant William O'Connor — who was affiliated with Defendant...

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