Reversing the lower court, a state appeals court has reinstated part of a $37 million legal-malpractice suit leveled by a former client against a Manhattan attorney after the client lost a $35 million breach-of-contract action based on statute-of-frauds grounds.

The reinstated part of the 2017-filed malpractice suit leveled against Roman Popik, a real-estate lawyer and business litigator, centers on 2010 claims made by his wealthy former client that two New York-based art and antique dealers had breached the sales contract for a Time Warner Center condominium he’d owned worth some $4 million, according to the appellate court’s malpractice decision and underlying court records.

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