FTF Lending, LLC v Mavrides, Moyal, Packman & Sadkin, LLP, 2022 NY Slip Op 02946 [205 AD3d 414]

May 3, 2022

Appellate Division, First Department

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FTF Lending, LLC, Respondent,

v

Mavrides, Moyal, Packman & Sadkin, LLP, et al., Appellants. (And a Third-Party Action.)

Fleischner Potash LLP, New York (Gil M. Coogler of counsel), for appellants.

Lippes Mathias LLP, Buffalo (Tessa R. Scott of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Margaret A. Chan, J.), entered on or about May 4, 2021, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants’ motion under CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint as against defendant Matthew Weinberger, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants do not dispute that the complaint, which asserts a cause of action for legal malpractice, sufficiently alleges that Weinberger, an associate attorney, acted negligently while performing legal services on behalf of defendant law firm. Thus, dismissal of the complaint as against Weinberger is not warranted under the Partnership Law (Partnership Law § 26 [c] [i]; see e.g. Scarborough v Napoli, Kaiser & Bern, LLP , 63 AD3d 1531 , 1532 [4th Dept 2009]) or the common-law doctrine of respondeat superior ( see Reliance Ins. Co. v Morris Assoc. , 200 AD2d 728, 730 [2d Dept 1994]; Jones v Archibald , 45 AD2d 532, 535 [4th Dept 1974]; accord Restatement [Third] of Agency § 7.01). Concur—Renwick, J.P., Kapnick, Friedman, Rodriguez, Pitt, JJ. [Prior Case History: 2021 NY Slip Op 31502(U).].