United States Second Circuit

In an action for legal malpractice, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to show actual injury because, under German law, they would have only been entitled to 50% of the subject inheritance regardless of any malpractice on the part of their counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/16/2009
• Published 10/16/2009

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MINER and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and STANCEU, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ellen R. Werther and Bruce J. Ressler, Ressler & Ressler, New York, NY, for plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellants-cross-appellees, plaintiff-third-party-defend ant-counter-claimant-counter-defendant-appellant-cross-appellee, and counter-claimant-third-party-defendant-appellant-cross-appellee., Andrew N. Krinsky and Debra Bodian Bernstein, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-third-party-plaintiff-counter-defendant-counter-claimant-appellees-cross-appellants, defendant-counter-claimant-third-party-plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.