A New York appellate court has suspended attorney Saul A. Berkman for nine months for failing to file a required notice that doomed his client's slip-and-fall case and for then withdrawing her claim without telling her. According to the per curiam opinion, the client did not find out about the withdrawal until four years later, after an attorney with her union asked Berkman about the case.
June 13, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The New York Appellate Division, 1st Department, has suspended attorney Saul A. Berkman for nine months for failing to file a required notice that doomed his client’s slip-and-fall case and for then withdrawing her claim without telling her.
Berkman, who was forced to leave his law firm, Young & Associates, after his disciplinary problems surfaced, failed to advise the state attorney general’s office about his client’s negligence claim against the state Board of Higher Education.
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