Eli Karp sues attorney Leo Jacobs for malpractice
Eli Karp is accusing his former lawyer of bilking him for a year while shirking his legal duties. The Hello Living developer filed a malpractice lawsuit against attorney Leo Jacobs, whom he accused of failing to get a judge to drop a $16 million judgment tied to a foreclosure of a 55-unit apartment building at 271 Lenox Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crain’s New York reported. The developer seeks an unspecified amount of legal fees, plus damages. Karp, a once-rising developer known for his sleek, “Hello”-branded luxury rentals, owned about a dozen New York buildings before surrendering several of them […]
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