A legal malpractice trial that was set to begin Oct. 24 against Brach Eichler was postponed after a judge denied the firm’s summary judgment motion in a suit alleging it advised one party during the formation of a strategic alliance and then represented the other side in allegedly improperly terminating that alliance.
Essex County Superior Court Judge Frank Covello rejected all of the defendants’ arguments as to why the legal malpractice suit by client Sparta Anesthesia Associates should be dismissed, including denying the firm’s bid to toss a request for punitive damages. Covello, while denying the plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment as to liability for legal malpractice, granted several of their motions in limine. Covello pushed the Oct. 24 trial date back to Dec. 5, according to his orders earlier this month in Sparta Anesthesia Associates v. Fanburg.
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