Fleissler v. Bayroff

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Goodman, J.), entered December 2, 1998, after a nonjury trial, in defendant’s favor dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiffs’ cause of action for legal malpractice was properly dismissed on the grounds that plaintiffs failed to establish the existence of an attorney-client relationship with defendant, a fellow investor, with respect to the real estate transaction at issue (see, Sucese v Kirsch, 199 AD2d 718) and, in any event, failed to establish that defendant’s conduct fell below the ordinary standard of practice…