A law firm has won dismissal of a legal malpractice suit brought by a Brooklyn man who received only $111 from a $150,000 settlement after litigation financing companies received the bulk of the funds.
Although Elwyn Francis claimed his attorneys at Mirman, Markovits & Landau failed to negotiate or attempt to reduce a litigation funding lien he acquired throughout the duration of his personal injury case, Brooklyn Supreme Justice Bernadette Bayne (See Profile) said in Francis v. Mirman, Markovits & Landau, 2993-2010, that Francis signed each funding agreement on “his own free will and accord.”
