Mars v. Dobrish

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy S. Friedman, J.), entered October 27, 2008, which, in an action for legal malpractice, granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied plaintiffs cross motions for partial summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs cross motions were properly denied, inasmuch as the proffered expert witness statement, even without opposition, did not establish a prima facie case of legal malpractice (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]). The court also properly determined that defendants…