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Legal Press Reports Legal Malpractice Case Against Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
In February 2011, the legal press reported the commencement of an action against Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP for legal malpractice committed during a proxy contest. The Complaint seeks $13 million in liquidated damages for failing to obtain certain contractual protection for its client, after assuring its client that it had done so. Cadwalader is represented by Cravath Swaine & Moore, LLP. See articles in New York Law Journal, Law360 and National Law Journal.
Judge Rejects Dismissal Motion in Patent Law Malpractice Case Against Greenberg Traurig
On March 31, 2010, Judge George B. Daniels rejected Greenberg Traurig's attempt to escape, on statute of limitations grounds, a patent law malpractice action brought by its former client Leviton Mfg. Co. Greenberg Traurig is represented by Williams & Connolly LLP. 3/31/2010 Transcript. Complaint.
Arbitrator Assesses Full Amount Of Mr. Jannuzzo's Legal Fees Against Opposing Party
On January 29, 2010, the arbitrator in an American Arbitration Association proceeding assessed the opposing party with the full amount of Mr. Jannuzzo's legal fees. This was the third consecutive AAA proceeding in which the opposing party has been ordered to pay the full amount of legal fees that Mr. Jannuzzo's client applied for. Read the redacted award.
Reversal in Copyright Malpractice Case
On June 18, 2009, the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously reversed a lower court decision, and reinstated a claim for legal malpractice against Pryor Cashman LLP, for giving a "copyright clearance" to the classical music company, Naxos, for classical recordings from the 1920s and 1930s, which were in fact protected by state common law copyright. Read the decision, and the Complaint.
Jury Verdict in Hedge Fund Case
After a three-week trial, on May 28, 2009 a New York jury rendered verdict on liability in favor of plaintiff in Melcher v. Apollo Medical Fund Management LLC and Brandon Fradd, rejecting Brandon Fradd's assertion that there was an "oral amendment" to the parties' written contract. Defendants were represented by Greenberg Trauring LLP.
On August 31, 2009, the trial judge issued a decision which stated as to defendant Brandon Fradd: "The jury verdict found that Fradd had breached his fiduciary duty by diverting fees and investors to Apollo Offshore. It further found that Fradd's sworn assertion there was an 'oral modification' was false, and that Fradd's sworn assertion that Mr. Melcher had waived his rights by not objecting was false." 8/31/2009 Decision.
