Hagensen v. Ferro, Kuba, Mangano, Skylar, Gacovino & Lake, P.C.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered January 3, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant law firm’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the first cause of action for legal malpractice, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant failed to timely serve the pleadings in an underlying personal injury action it commenced on plaintiffs behalf, and the action was dismissed on statute of limitations grounds. Defendant moved for summary judgment in the instant action, alleging that plaintiff could not establish the proximate cause *411element of the…