Markowitz v. Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin Lever & Goodman, LLP
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
To establish a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove that the attorney “failed to exercise the ordinary reasonable skill and knowledge commonly possessed by a member of the legal profession and that the attorney’s breach of this duty proximately caused the plaintiff actual and ascertainable damages” (Hamoudeh v Mandel, 62 AD3d 948, 949 [2009], quoting Maiolini v McAdams & Fallon, P.C., 61 AD3d 644, 645 [2009]). “To establish causation, a plaintiff must show that he or she would have prevailed in the underlying action or would not have incurred any…
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