Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2001

Burke v. Law Offices of Landau, Miller & Moran

Burke v. Law Offices of Landau, Miller & Moran
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 4, 2001
289 A.D.2d 16; 733 N.Y.S.2d 416; 2001 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11618
Burke v. Law Offices of Landau, Miller & Moran

Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis York, J.), entered April 18, 2000, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

*17The IAS court correctly concluded that defendant law firm was not entitled to dismissal of the legal malpractice cause of action against it as a matter of law, where it notified plaintiff merely 33 days before expiration of the statutory period that the firm was declining to represent plaintiff in her contemplated medical malpractice action, and further failed to specifically call her attention to the number of days remaining before the Statute of Limitations expired. Rather, under the circumstances, a question of fact is presented as to whether this conduct constituted a breach of a duty owed to plaintiff. Concur — Andrias, J. P., Wallach, Lerner, Saxe and Friedman, JJ.

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