Gladstone v. Ziegler

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J), entered August 21, 2006, after a jury trial, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, dismissing the first cause of action as against defendant law firm, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

An action for legal malpractice requires proof of the attorney’s negligence, a showing that the negligence was the proximate cause of the plaintiffs injury, and evidence of actual damages (Russo v Feder, Kaszovitz, Isaacson, Weber, Skala & Bass, 301 AD2d 63, 67 [2002]). Here, although the court granted summary judgment to…