2nd Circuit:  Expert Properly Excluded In Estate’s Suit Against Former Attorney

Mealey's (June 25, 2019, 9:18 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — With an expert witness’s opinions in support of a woman’s legal malpractice claims properly excluded for lack of reliability, a trial court correctly awarded the defendant attorney summary judgment, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined June 20 (Celeste Puppolo v. John J. Welch, Jr., et al., No. 18-2601, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 18493)....