A New York lawyer has been ordered to pay about $26 million in a legal malpractice case over allegations that he convinced an elderly client with Alzheimer’s disease to sell him a valuable piece of land despite his diminished mental state.
A jury with US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Friday found that Howard Kleinhendler had committed legal malpractice, fraudulent inducement and exploitation of a vulnerable adult in the case brought by former client Allan Applestein and Applestein’s company, Diatomite Corporation of America.
The jury also said that Wachtel Missry LLP was vicariously liable because ...
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