OGUAGHA, M.D. v. ROPES & GRAY


38 A.D.3d 298 (2007)

830 N.Y.S.2d 660

CHIKA OGUAGHA, M.D., Appellant-Respondent, v. ROPES & GRAY et al., Respondents-Appellants.

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

Decided March 13, 2007.


The record establishes that plaintiff's defamation claim was not viable because the statements contained in the subject letter were absolutely privileged. Although defendant attorney, a member of defendant law firm and of the Massachusetts bar, was not admitted to practice in New York, he was acting of-counsel in the Brooklyn litigation and was assisting the attorney of record, who was a member of defendant law firm and a member of the New York bar, and the statements contained...

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