Crawford v. McBride

—In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (McGuirk, J.), dated March 20, 2002, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

For a defendant in a legal malpractice case to succeed on a motion for summary judgment, evidence must be presented in admissible form establishing that the plaintiff is unable to prove at least one of the essential elements (see Ostriker v Taylor, Atkins & Ostrow, 258 AD2d 572 [1999]; Ippolito v…