Engelke v. Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J-), entered April 17, 2012, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and denied plaintiff’s motion to strike defendant’s answer pursuant to CPLR 3126 or, in the alternative, for partial summary judgment dismissing an affirmative defense of general release, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly dismissed the claim of legal malpractice. Even if plaintiff established the requisite conflict based on the existence of a prior attorney-client relationship, which relationship the…