Edward Roberts, LLC v. Shipman & Goodwin LLP — Law Firm Cannot Limit Malpractice Damages by Blaming Client’s Own Misrepresentations
The First Department reverses a trial court’s limitation of legal malpractice damages, holding that whether a client’s misrepresentations to Walmart constituted an intervening superseding cause raises a triable issue of fact — and that $40 million in EPA-embargoed inventory losses are not capped by the client’s separate fraud.