Stamford attorney Richard Grant recently won a $360,000 legal malpractice case. But he’s taking no particular pride in the victory. The defendant lawyer, Peter Shafran, never showed up to answer his charges.

“When there is no one there to defend it, it tends to make it easier,” said Grant, of the Law Offices of Piazza, Simmons & Grant. “I tried to give him notice. We tried to find him. He never responded. It was a default judgment.”