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Home>Paul Leclair

Paul Leclair

Recent Articles from Paul Leclair

Advocate's View January 24, 2019

Advocate’s View: Suing employees for negligence?

The client was furious. While making a delivery, his employee of many years was involved in a trucking accident. No one was injured, and the accident did not cause third-party property damage. The driver had driven off the road over the river and into the woods. The accident destroyed the manufactured products of an entire […]

Advocate's View May 3, 2018

Advocate’s View: Forging ahead to the future despite serious personal problems

Attorneys help their clients forge a path to the future, and nothing is as affirming as when a client says their attorney gave them hope in what was an otherwise indecipherable dilemma. Helping people with problems is what attorneys do. Sometimes, though, attorneys have their own serious problems and are unable to find their way. […]

Advocate's View October 17, 2013

Advocate’s View: Significance of getting transcripts signed by a witness

For the litigating attorney, there are many piece parts to keep track of in preparing for trial, but one to include in an attorney’s check-list for state court trial preparation is the obligation of CPLR 3116. A litigator must contend with the simple requirement that a deposition must be submitted to a witness for review […]

Advocate's View May 16, 2012

Advocate’s View: No employment at-will exception for compliance officer

The employment at-will doctrine withstood another challenge. Last week on May 8, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed the First Department and rendered a decision refusing to create an employment at-will exception for a corporate compliance officer who complained of security trade irregularities to the security firm’s principal, Sullivan v. Harnisch, 2012 NY Lexis […]

Advocate's View January 20, 2011

Advocate’s View: Attorney fee applications and Dante’s ‘Inferno’

Making an attorney fee application causes me considerable angst. Even though the application comes on the heels of a successful outcome, it is too personal. While the primary litigation is certainly a test of an attorney’s substantive knowledge, experience and strategic acumen ...

Advocate's View August 19, 2010

Advocate’s View: Affirmative Defense: How hard can it be?

While drafting answers to a complaint, identifying affirmative defenses often has been nothing more than a brainstorming session and a quick run through pleadings forms to be sure that you included all those that may apply.

Advocate's View March 17, 2010

Advocate’s View: Two ethical issues for attorneys

Very interesting facts in a recent Appellate Division, Fourth Department case call into play certain ethical obligations to which litigators must always pay heed in their practices.

Advocate's View October 15, 2009

A lovers’ … er, fiduciaries’ quarrel

Chalk one up to Lord Byron’s adage that truth is stranger than fiction. In a case involving a former husband and wife, the New York State Court of Appeals recently rendered a decision finding the defendant wife presented facts sufficient to raise an issue of fact that her plaintiff husband, then “paramour,” secured a mortgage […]

Advocate's View May 21, 2009

Upon further consideration …

On May 5, the New York State Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division, Fourth Department in the Article 78 case of Matter of Infante, as Administrator of Estate of Rosemary Infante v. Dignan, MD, Medical Examiner, __NY2d__, 2009 WL 1181328. My Nov., 20, 2008 column in this space concerned the then-recent Fourth Department decision […]

Advocate's View November 20, 2008

An instructive Article 78 decision to live by

A recent Fourth Department decision, with two justices dissenting, reminds litigation attorneys of the difficult standards of review that govern in Article 78 proceedings, but also of the need to zealously take every opportunity to present facts that put a client in the most favorable light despite those standards. The reminder sharpens an attorney’s approach […]

Advocate's View June 19, 2008

Pleading fraud against individual defendants

On May 8, the New York State Court of Appeals rendered a 4-2 decision in Pludeman v. Northern Leasing Systems Inc., holding that the requirements of CPLR 3016(b) — a litigant must specifically plead a cause of action in fraud against those affiliated with a business organization — may be satisfied against individual defendants when […]

Advocate's View February 21, 2008

The use of alternative measures of damage

Preparing a party’s financial damages claim for trial can be an anxiety-provoking experience. In a non-personal injury setting involving financial damages, there are many issues. Some critical ones include the appropriate measure of damages, the tension between using your client or an expert witness to explain the financial harm your client endured, and the use […]

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