BILLIARD BALLS MANAGEMENT, LLC v. MINTZER SAROWITZ ZERIS LEDVA & MEYERS, LLP

5333, 153477/16.

157 A.D.3d 419 (2018)

66 N.Y.S.3d 116

2018 NY Slip Op 00018

BILLIARD BALLS MANAGEMENT, LLC, Doing Business as SLATE, Respondent, v. MINTZER SAROWITZ ZERIS LEDVA & MEYERS, LLP, Appellant.

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

Decided January 2, 2018.


Plaintiff Billiard Balls Management (Billiard) sufficiently stated a claim for legal malpractice. The record clearly establishes an attorney-client relationship, as defendant entered into two stipulations extending Billiard's time to answer in an underlying personal injury action, which were filed in court, and represented itself as Billiard's attorney (see Cooke v Laidlaw Adams & Peck, 126 A.D.2d 453, 455 [1st Dept 1987];

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