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Member at the firm The Law Office of Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
Areas of Practice
Legal Malpractice(90%, 250); Personal Injury(1%); Commercial Litigation(2%); Professional Malpractice(2%); Civil Litigation; Appellate Practice(5%)
Admitted
1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Syracuse University, J.D., 1978
College
Alfred University, B.A., 1973; State University of New York, M.A., 1975
Membership
Brooklyn, New York State (Member, Lawyer's Professional Liability Committee, 2007) and American Bar Associations; Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; New York State Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Association of Trial Lawyers of New York.
Biography
Listed: Who's Who in America, 2007; Who's Who, 2003; Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in Emerging Lawyers in America. Recipient, Presidential Award, Association of Legal Malpractice Attorneys, 2006. Winner, Hewlett Packard Legal Technology Innovation Award, 2006. Member, Law Review. CLE Lecturer: New York State Trial Lawyers Association; Practicing Law Institute, LawLine.Com. Speaker, Legal Malpractice: LawLine Continuing Education, 2006, 2007 and 2008; New York State Bar Association Professional Liability Seminar, 2008; Legal Malpractice Litigation & Risk Management, 2007; Practicing Lawyers Institute, 2000. Speaker, Legal Malpractice in the Courtroom, New York State Trial Lawyers Institute, 2000. Author and Publisher: "New York Attorney Malpractice Blog," Blog.Bluestonelawfirm.com. Author: "Attorney Client Privilege in Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2008; Weekly Column, LawLine.Com, 2008; "'Built For' Proximate Cause and Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2008; "The Defense of Collectibility in Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2007; "Legal Malpractice Litigation," New York City Bar Association, 2007; "Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2007; "Client Terminates Attorney: The End of the Relationship," New York Law Journal, 2006; "Statute of Limitations in Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2006; "Legal Malpractice," LawLine.Com, 2006; "The Collateral Estoppel Trap in Legal Malpractice," New York Law Journal, 2006; "'Carvalho:' Deposing Attorneys as Experts in Their Own Cases," New York Law Journal, 2005; "Legal Malpractice for Lawyers," Practicing Lawyers Institute, 2002; "Legal Malpractice for Lawyers," Practicing Lawyers Institute, 2002; "Legal Malpractice in the Courtroom," New York State Trial Lawyers Institute, 2000; "Use and Preparation of an Expert," Defense Association of New York, 1986; "Use of Experts," Brooklyn Bar Association Journal, 1985. Contributor: column, "Outside Counsel," New York Law Journal, LawLine.com, New York State Trial Lawyers; "Brooklyn Barrister," DANY Publications. Senior Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, 1978-1984. Arbitrator, Small Claims Court, 1993. Member, Board of Directors, Scandia Symphony, New York.
Reported Cases
LaBaberra v. N.Y. Eye and Ear Hospital, 91 N.Y.2d 207; Broadcast News Networks v. Loeb & Loeb; Gelfand v. Oliver.
Born
New York, New York, February 16, 1951
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