Shopsin v. Siben & Siben, Esqs.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the defendants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), dated December 2, 1998, as denied their cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
An attorney may be liable for malpractice where there is proof that he or she failed to exercise the skill commonly exercised by an ordinary member of the legal community, and that but for such negligence, the plaintiff would have prevailed in the…
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