Porello v. Longworth
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Feinman, J.), entered December 22, 2004, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied his cross motion for summary judgment.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
To establish a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove that (1) the attorney failed to exercise that degree of care, skill, and diligence commonly possessed by a member of the legal community, (2)…
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