Terrace Credit Corp. v. Chase National Bank

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• concluding that there is \no compelling reason to depart from the established rule limiting recovery in legal malpractice actions to pecuniary damages\
• concluding that the loss of liberty attendant to a period of incarceration is nonpecuniary in nature and not available in an action for attorney malpractice
• holding that nonpecuniary damages are not recoverable in legal malpractice cases arising out of criminal proceedings because allowing such damages “would have ... devastating consequences for the criminal justice system”
• finding “no compelling reason to depart from the established rule limiting recovery in legal malpractice actions to pecuniary damages” even where client alleged wrongful loss of liberty as result of criminal defense lawyer’s negligence
• declining to depart from New York’s rule “limiting recovery in legal malpractice actions to pecuniary damages” 7 because to allow non-pecuniary damages “would have, at best, negative and, at worst, devastating consequences for the criminal justice system”

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