A retired teacher who claimed a Staten Island law firm "did virtually nothing to prosecute" her personal injury case for 14 years has convinced an Eastern District magistrate judge that her ex-attorneys were negligent.
McKernan & Gatins represented Catherine Cox in a slip-and-fall action, filing suit against the City of New York in 1994. The case was dismissed in 2008 when a judge found the city wasn’t the proper defendant. By then it was too late to bring suit against the right party, and Cox sued the firm for legal malpractice.
