VDR Realty Corp. v. Mintz

Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs, in accordance with the following memorandum: Factual allegations of the *987complaint to the effect that defendant attorney unreasonably delayed the prosecution of a landlord-tenant holdover proceeding and engaged in dilatory tactics, thereby increasing the attorney’s fee and causing other consequential damages, state a cause of action for legal malpractice (see, Wolstencroft v Sassower, 124 AD2d 582; 2 Hallen and Smith, Legal Malpractice § 24.15 [3d ed]; Note, Liability of an Attorney in the Conduct of Litigation, 12…