Cummings v. Donovan
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, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Sherwood, J.), dated November 28, 2005, as granted those branches of the defendant’s motion which were to dismiss the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth causes of action pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
A cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice requires proof of three elements: (1) that the defendant failed to exercise…
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