Optical Communications Groups, Inc. v. Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman, LLP

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered on or about April 1, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff Optical asserts that its former attorneys, Rubin, Fiorella and Friedman, mishandled the litigation of a maritime action in which it sought to recover damages caused when its submarine fiber optical cable was struck and destroyed by an anchor inadvertently released from a…