Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, PC v. Kaplan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that legal malpractice claims were assignable against attorneys who prepared private placement memoranda
• cautioning that general policy concerns would still prevent the assignment of \most\ legal malpractice claims
• noting that “vast majority” ol' assignments barred but permitting assignment of malpractice claim stemming from drafting of private placement memorandum because memorandum intended for publication to third parties and thus attorney owed duty of loyalty to public
• “Florida law views legal malpractice as a personal tort . . . .”
• “Florida law views legal malpractice as a personal tort . . . .”
• “[B]ecause lawyers preparing private placement memoranda, like independent auditors, owe a duty to those who rely on statements contained in their published documents, parties may assign claims for legal malpractice committed in preparing them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).