United States Second Circuit

In an attorney malpractice suit, summary judgment for attorney-defendants is vacated and remanded where the district judge appeared to have focused unnecessarily on the issue of negligence while failing to address the element of causation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2008
• Published 06/03/2008

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CALABRESI, RAGGI and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. Ronemus, Ronemus & Vilensky, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard E. Lerner, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP (Michael A. Carrasco, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.