PARAMETRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT v. LACHER


15 A.D.3d 301 (2005)

791 N.Y.S.2d 10

PARAMETRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, et al., Appellants, v. MICHAEL A. LACHER et al., Respondents.

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

February 22, 2005.


The third cause of action fails to plead the elements required to state a cause of action for legal malpractice at this time. Instead, the amended complaint attempts to cast a contractual fee dispute as one in tort. The claim is not sufficiently stated to demonstrate that the professional services of any of the defendant attorneys departed from the standards commonly exercised by legal practitioners in the community, nor to demonstrate damage to plaintiffs by defendants'...

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