Legal Opinion
Brown v. Samalin & Bock, P. C.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 6, 1989PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ruskin, J.), entered September 12, 1988, which denied his motion for leave to serve an amended complaint, and (2) an order of the same *408court, entered December 7, 1988, which denied his second motion for leave to serve an amended complaint.
Ordered that the orders are affirmed, with costs.
While leave to amend should be freely given (CPLR 3025 [b]), the decision of whether to do so is committed to the discretion of the trial court and its exercise of that…
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