LAI v. GARTLAN

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Docket Number

8263, 8264.

Attorney(S)

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman Dicker LLP, New York (Richard E. Lerner of counsel), for appellant-respondent. Kirkpatrick Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, New York (Michael R. Gordon of counsel), for Dunnie Lai, respondent-appellant. Drabkin Margulies, New York (Ralph Drabkin of counsel), for Generation Properties Investment Co., respondent-appellant.

Judges

Richard T. Andrias
David B. Saxe

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DUNNIE LAI et al., Respondents-Appellants, et al., Plaintiff, v. H.J. GARTLAN, JR., Also Known as JAY GARTLAN, Also Known as HARRY GARTLAN, et al., Defendants, and DAVID WANKOFF, Appellant-Respondent.

Plaintiffs' legal malpractice claims were time-barred. The documentation plaintiffs submitted showed only the continuation of a general professional relationship, and not an ongoing representation concerning the specific matters from which their claims arose ( see Parlato v. Equitable Life Assur. Socy. of U.S., 299 AD2d 108, lv denied 99 NY2d 508; cf. Shumsky v. Eisenstein, 96 NY2d 164). Furthermore, the second amended complaint failed to plead fraud by Wankoff with sufficient specificity ( see CPLR 3016 [b]). Plaintiffs failed, inter alia, to allege any material misrepresentation by Wankoff or any material omission he knew to be false ( see J.A.O. Acquisition Corp. v. Stavitsky, 18 AD3d 389).

DUNNIE LAI et al., Respondents-Appellants, et al., Plaintiff, v. H.J. GARTLAN, JR., Also Known as JAY GARTLAN, Also Known as HARRY GARTLAN, et al., Defendants, and DAVID WANKOFF, Appellant-Respondent.

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