Klein v. Rieff
| Decision Date | 27 January 2016 |
| Docket Number | 2013-11294,2013-04489,Index No. 500820/12. |
| Citation | 2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 00482,135 A.D.3d 910,24 N.Y.S.3d 364 |
| Parties | Abraham KLEIN, appellant, v. Samuel E. RIEFF, et al., respondents, et al., defendants. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
135 A.D.3d 910
24 N.Y.S.3d 364
2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 00482
Abraham KLEIN, appellant,
v.
Samuel E. RIEFF, et al., respondents, et al., defendants.
2013-04489
2013-11294
Index No. 500820/12.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Jan. 27, 2016.
Mendel Zilberberg & Associates, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Mendel Zilberberg and Samuel Karpel of counsel), for appellant.
McManus & Richter, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Jillian M. Amagsila of counsel), for respondent Samuel E. Rieff.
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York, N.Y. (Thomas Leghorn and Patrick J. Lawless of counsel), for respondent Eugene F. Levy.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, New York, N.Y. (Phillip Furia and Paula Gilbert of counsel), for respondents Matthew W. Naparty and Mauro Lilling Naparty, LLP.
L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Noah Nunberg of counsel), for respondents Mark L. Hankin and Hankin & Mazel, PLLC.
Stephen N. Preziosi, New York, N.Y., respondent pro se.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for legal malpractice, fraudulent misrepresentation, and a violation of Judiciary Law § 487, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, (1) from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rothenberg, J.), dated January 31, 2013, as granted those branches of the separate motions of the defendant Eugene F. Levy, the defendants Matthew W. Naparty and Mauro Lilling Naparty, LLP, the defendants Mark L. Hankin and Hankin & Mazel, PLLC, and the defendant Stephen N. Preziosi which were pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) to dismiss the causes of action alleging legal malpractice, fraudulent misrepresentation, and a violation of Judiciary Law § 487 insofar as asserted against each of them, and (2) from so much of an order of the same court, dated December 5, 2013, as, upon reargument and renewal, adhered to its original determination in the order dated January 31, 2013, granting those branches of the separate motions of the defendant Eugene F. Levy, the defendants Matthew W. Naparty and Mauro Lilling Naparty, LLP, the defendants Mark L. Hankin and Hankin & Mazel, PLLC, and the defendant Stephen N. Preziosi which were pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) to dismiss the causes of action alleging legal malpractice, fraudulent misrepresentation, and a violation of Judiciary Law § 487 insofar as asserted against each of them, granted those branches of the separate motion of...
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