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Merlin Biomed Asset v. Wolf Block Schorr

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 15, 2005
23 A.D.3d 243 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)

Opinion

7058, 7058A.

November 15, 2005.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paula J. Omansky, J.), entered November 1, 2004, which, inter alia, granted defendants' cross motion for partial summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order, same court and Justice, entered September 16, 2004, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as superseded by the appeal from the order of November 1, 2004.

Eiseman Levine Lehrhaupt Kakoyiannis, P.C., New York (Eric R. Levine of counsel), for appellants.

Patterson, Belknap, Webb Tyler, LLP, New York (Frederick B. Warder III of counsel), for respondents.

Before: Marlow, J.P., Nardelli, Gonzalez and Sweeny, JJ., concur.


The motion court properly concluded that plaintiffs were required to offer expert testimony in support of their claim for legal malpractice that raises issues regarding the standard of care of an attorney drafting purchasing and marketing agreements in the field of hedge funds and financial management companies, a subject that is not part of the jurors' ordinary, daily experience ( see Schadoff v. Russ, 278 AD2d 222). Defendants' expert submission was sufficient to meet their burden that they did not depart from the applicable standard of care ( see id.). Since plaintiffs failed to offer expert testimony on the subject, they failed to raise an issue of fact and partial summary judgment was properly granted defendants ( see id.; Zeller v. Copps, 294 AD2d 683, 684).


Summaries of

Merlin Biomed Asset v. Wolf Block Schorr

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 15, 2005
23 A.D.3d 243 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
Case details for

Merlin Biomed Asset v. Wolf Block Schorr

Case Details

Full title:MERLIN BIOMED ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, et al., Appellants, v. WOLF BLOCK…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Nov 15, 2005

Citations

23 A.D.3d 243 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 8651
803 N.Y.S.2d 552

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