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Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone


Legal Malpractice Lawyer
Andrew Lavoott Bluestone Law Firm
New York, NY
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Attorney Biography

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone has been an attorney for 40 years, with a career that spans criminal prosecution, civil litigation and appellate litigation. Mr. Bluestone became an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County in 1978, entered private practice in 1984 and in 1989 opened his private law office and took his first legal malpractice case.    

Since 1989, Bluestone has become a leader in the New York Plaintiff’s Legal Malpractice bar, handling a wide array of plaintiff’s legal malpractice cases arising from catastrophic personal injury, contracts, patents, commercial litigation, securities, matrimonial and custody issues, medical malpractice, insurance, product liability, real estate, landlord-tenant, foreclosures and has defended attorneys in a limited number of legal malpractice cases.

 

Bluestone also took an academic role in field, publishing the New York Attorney Malpractice Report from 2002-2004.  He started the “New York Attorney Malpractice Blog” in 2004, where he has published more than 4500 entries.

Mr. Bluestone has written 38 scholarly peer-reviewed articles concerning legal malpractice, many in the Outside Counsel column of the New York Law Journal. He has appeared as an Expert witness in multiple legal malpractice litigations.

Mr. Bluestone is an adjunct professor of law at St. John’s University College of Law, teaching Legal Malpractice.  Mr. Bluestone has argued legal malpractice cases in the Second Circuit, in the New York State Court of Appeals, each of the four New York Appellate Divisions, in all four of  the U.S. District Courts of New York and in Supreme Courts all over the state.  He has also been admitted pro haec vice in the states of Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida and was formally admitted to the US District Court of Connecticut and to its Bankruptcy Court all for legal malpractice matters. He has been retained by U.S. Trustees in legal malpractice cases from Bankruptcy Courts, and has represented municipalities, insurance companies, hedge funds, communications companies and international manufacturing firms. Mr. Bluestone regularly lectures in CLEs on legal malpractice.

Based upon his professional experience Bluestone was named a Diplomate and was Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in 2008 in Legal Malpractice. He remains Board Certified.  He was admitted to The Best Lawyers in America from 2012-2019.  He has been featured in Who’s Who in Law since 1993.

In the last years, Mr. Bluestone has been featured for two particularly noteworthy legal malpractice cases.  The first was a settlement of an $11.9 million dollar default legal malpractice case of Yeo v. Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman which was reported in the NYLJ on August 15, 2016. Most recently, Mr. Bluestone obtained a rare plaintiff’s verdict in a legal malpractice case on behalf of the City of White Plains v. Joseph Maria, reported in the NYLJ on February 14, 2017. It was the sole legal malpractice jury verdict in the State of New York for 2017.

In addition to the legal malpractice cases, Bluestone prosecuted an action which changed the practice of bail bonds in New York State.  Gevorkyan v. Judelsonwas brought in the Southern District of New York, appealed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where Bluestone convinced the court to send a certified question to the New York State Court of Appeals.  The NY Court of Appeals answered the question in favor of Bluestone’s client, and as a direct result New York State Department of Financial Services rendered rule changes to follow the opinion of the New York Court of Appeals.  As a result, state wide changes took place as requested in the Gevorkyanlawsuit.

Bluestone has been at the forefront of the development of legal malpractice principles and has contributed case law decisions, writing and lecturing which have been recognized by his peers.  He is regularly mentioned in academic writing, and his past cases are often cited in current legal malpractice decisions. He is recognized for his ample writings on Judiciary Law § 487, a 850 year old statute deriving from England which relates to attorney deceit.


Practice Areas

 
Legal Malpractice (100%)

Résumé - Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

Bar Licenses

New York State Bar
New York
Member in Good Standing
1979

Work Experience

Law offices of Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
Attorney
1989Present

Trolman & Glazer, LLP
Attorney
19871989

Davis & Hoffman
Attorney
19841986

Office of the District Attorney, Kings County, NY
Assistant District Attorney
19781984

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Education

Syracuse University College of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
JD
1978

Alfred University
Alfred University
BA
1973

SUNY Oswego
MA

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Specialty Certifications

American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys
Board Certified
Legal Professional Liability
American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys

Commercial Recognitions

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Recognized for Professional Involvement
Lawyer Legion
2024

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Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
Andrew Lavoott Bluestone Law Firm
233 Broadway, 51st Floor
New York, NY 10279
Office: 212-791-5600
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