• Nieves v. Office of the Pub. Defender

    Publication Date: 2020-04-27
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaVecchia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas D. Flinn (Garrity, Graham, Murphy, Garofalo & Flinn, attorneys; Thomas D. Flinn, of counsel and on the briefs, and Francis X. Garrity, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Daniel M. Vannella, Assistant Attorney General (Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney; Melissa H. Raksa, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel, and Daniel M. Vannella, on the briefs)

    Case Number: A-69-18 (082262)

    Legal Malpractice Claim Against Public Defender Seeking Loss of Liberty Damages from Wrongful Conviction Barred by TCA Verbal Threshold

  • Nieves v. Office of the Pub. Defender

    Publication Date: 2020-04-15
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry:
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaVecchia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: (A-69-18) (082262)

    Plaintiff appealed from the appellate division's judgment, which reversed the trial court's denial of defendants' motion for summary judgment.