Board of Managers of Bay Club v. Borah, Goldstein, Schwartz, Altschuler & Nahins, P.C.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*613To state a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must allege that the attorney “failed to exercise the ordinary reasonable skill and knowledge commonly possessed by a member of the legal profession,” and that the breach of this duty proximately caused the plaintiff to sustain actual and ascertainable damages (Leder v Spiegel, 9 NY3d 836, 837 [2007] [internal quotation marks omitted], cert denied sub nom. Spiegel v Rowland, 552 US 1257 [2008]; see Rudolf v Shayne, Dachs, Stanisci, Corker & Sauer, 8 NY3d 438, 442 [2007]; McCoy v Feinman, 99 NY2d 295, 301-302…
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