FLEMING v. VASSALLO


283 A.D.2d 225 (2001)

724 N.Y.S.2d 732

JANE FLEMING, Respondent, v. JOHN VASSALLO, ESQ., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided May 10, 2001.


Plaintiff alleges that defendants committed legal malpractice in the course of representing her in a divorce proceeding against her ex-husband, David M. Swersky. She claims that in the context of that proceeding, which took place during the 1987 stock market crash, defendants improperly directed her to reject Swersky's December 1987 settlement offer of approximately $2.5 million consisting of cash, real estate and a 50 percent interest in the marital home, and instead undertook...

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