The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reinstated a legal malpractice case against an estate attorney who was accused of negligence in handling a real estate sale, noting that the alleged malpractice was due in part to the lawyer’s failure to have face-to-face contact with his client for years.

In a Feb. 10 unpublished memorandum, a three-judge panel consisting of Judges Mary Jane Bowes, Jacqueline Shogan and Eugene Strassburger reversed a Montgomery County trial judge’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Alan Silverman of Gold, Silverman, Goldenberg & Binder.