ESTATE OF WILLIAM GOTTLIEB v. KARLSSON


295 A.D.2d 158 (2002)

744 N.Y.S.2d 118

ESTATE OF WILLIAM GOTTLIEB, Deceased, Respondent, v. KENT KARLSSON, ESQ., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendant. (And a Third-Party Action.)

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

Decided June 11, 2002.


The motion court properly found that plaintiff had made out a prima facie case of legal malpractice on the part of appellants. The evidence demonstrated that two months after the Appellate Division, Second Department had rendered a determination limiting the decedent's personal liability in the underlying action to $16,000 (see, Hillcrest Realty Co. v Gottlieb, 208 A.D.2d 803), appellants counseled their client without first checking...

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