McCormack & Phillips v. Krim

—In related actions, inter alia, to recover payment of legal fees and to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff in Action No. 1, McCormack & Phillips, and the defendant in Action No. 2, Ronald A. Phillips, appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Bergerman, J.), dated February 9, 2000, which denied their motion for summary judgment dismissing the legal malpractice counterclaims in Action No. 1, and the complaint in Action No. 2.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

It is well settled that “[t]o establish a cause of action to re*465cover damages for legal…