WALKER v. SHAEVITZ & SHAEVITZ

2017-08945, 2018-09860. Index No. 14330/14.

192 A.D.3d 1062 (2021)

2021 NY Slip Op 01799

Debra Walker et al., Appellants, v. Shaevitz & Shaevitz, Esqs., Respondent.

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

Decided March 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Effie Soter, P.C., New York, NY ( Effimia Soter and Dimitrios Kourouklis of counsel), for appellants.

L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, P.C., Garden City, NY ( William T. McCaffery of counsel), for respondent.

Mastro, A.P.J., Rivera, Miller and Duffy, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the orders are affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs.

In 2014, the plaintiffs, Debra Walker and Vanton Barrett, commenced this action against the defendant, Shaevitz & Shaevitz, Esqs., their former attorneys (hereinafter the law firm), to recover damages for legal malpractice. According to the plaintiffs, the law firm deviated from accepted standards of legal practice during its representation of the plaintiffs in a personal injury...

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