Legal Opinion
Gioeli v. Vlachos
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 22, 2011PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
To state a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must allege (1) that the attorney “failed to exercise the ordinary reasonable skill and knowledge commonly possessed by a member of the legal profession,” and (2) that the breach of this duty proximately caused the plaintiff to sustain actual and ascertainable damages (Leder v Spiegel, 9 NY3d 836, 837 [2007] [internal quotation marks omitted], cert denied sub nom. Spiegel v Rowland, 552 US 1257 [2008]; see Dempster v Liotti, 86 AD3d 169, 176 [2011]). “To establish the element of causation, a plaintiff must show…
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