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Legal Malpractice Suit Against Personal Injury Lawyers Permitted to Go Forward

New York Law Journal

October 31, 2007

A New York judge has permitted a legal malpractice suit to proceed against a group of personal injury lawyers who tried to argue that the medical malpractice suit they allegedly botched had no merit in the first place. "[S]uch arguments fly in the face of the fact that Defendants represented Plaintiffs for almost three years, presumably because they believed that the lawsuit had merit," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Emily Goodman wrote.

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