Conti v. Polizzotto
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 and breach of fiduciary duty, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, ICings County (Barasch, J.), dated September 10, 1996, which granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
“The well-established rule in New York with respect to attorney malpractice is that absent fraud, collusion, malicious acts or other special circumstances, an attorney is not liable to third parties, not in privity, for harm caused by…
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