Legal Opinion
Meimeteas v. Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 25, 2013PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered January 19, 2012, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint and denied plaintiffs cross motion to amend the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiffs malpractice claim was properly dismissed because he could not allege a but-for causal link between defendants’ delay in commencing a proceeding in court or arbitration and the subsequent denial of the pro se claim he asserted against Lehman Brothers in bankruptcy court (see AmBase Corp. v Davis Polk & Wardwell, 8 NY3d 428, 434 [2007]). His…
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