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July 10, 2002 |

Ramos Begins Query Into Tobacco Fees

IN A TENSE court session yesterday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos told lawyers for six law firms that were awarded million for their work in the historic 1998 tobacco settlement in no uncertain terms that he will examine whether the fee award is unethical.
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September 23, 2011 |

Port Authority Ruled Not Liable in 1993 WTC Terror Bombing

The 4-3 majority of the Court of Appeals accepted the agency's position that not only did it have governmental immunity, but that it made no sense for the First Department to hold the agency twice as responsible as the terrorists for the damages.
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September 12, 2006 |

N.Y. contractors battle over 9/11 claims

WHEN CONGRESS WROTE a check for $1 billion in federal emergency money to buy insurance for New York City contractors and subcontractors who worked in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, they expected the firefighters and cleanup crews to get paid for illnesses allegedly caused by unsafe working conditions.Instead what they got is an insurance company that refuses to settle claims.
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November 27, 2006 |

Second Department Lags In Time to Decide Appeals

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May 21, 2012 |

Matrimonial Litigation and Legal Malpractice

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone, a Manhattan attorney specializing in legal malpractice litigation, writes that given the significance of the money division between the spouses which may comprise their entire net worth, the extreme emotional nature of the proceedings, and stringent statutory structures for the attorney-client relationship, matrimonial judgments are frequently the subject of legal malpractice scrutiny.
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June 17, 2013 |

Daily Routines of Smaller Firms Still Bedeviled by Storm

Many lawyers who have had to scramble to find alternate office space after Hurricane Sandy admit to meeting clients in homes or coffee shops, and several firms say they are still grappling with insurers over business interruption coverage.
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January 28, 2011 |

Suits & Deals

Large settlements and verdicts in New Jersey.
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Leff v. Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., 117424/06
Publication Date: 2010-11-23
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Court: Supreme Court, New York County
Judge: Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Nardelli, Acosta, DeGrasse, JJ
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., New York (Frank V. Floriani of counsel), for appellant.
For defendant: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York (Frederick B. Warder of counsel), for respondents.
Case number: 117424/06

Cite as: Leff v. Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., 117424/06, NYLJ 1202475228998, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided November 18, 2010)Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Nardell

January 27, 2010 |

Settlements and Subsequent Legal Malpractice

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone, a sole practitioner, writes that recently, one Appellate Division case and two Supreme Court cases have challenged the "effectively compelled" principle - that legal malpractice claims are viable even after a settlement in the underlying action if that settlement was effectively compelled by counsel's mistakes - and in effect, turned it on its head.
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April 23, 2001 |

Six Firms Split $625 Million in Fees for New York's Share of Big Tobacco Case

An arbitration panel has awarded $625 million in attorneys' fees to the six firms that were hired by New York state to sue the tobacco industry, say sources close to the arbitration. The fee award is for the work the six firms did in securing $25 billion as New York's share of the historic $208 billion pact reached between 46 states and the tobacco industry in 1998.
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