Alden v. Brindisi
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) in this legal malpractice action. Accepting as true the facts set forth in the complaint and according plaintiff the benefit of all favorable inferences arising therefrom, as we must in the context of the instant motion (see generally Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]), we conclude that the complaint fails to plead a cognizable theory for legal malpractice because it does not permit the inference that any alleged negligence by defendant was a proximate cause of…
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