Billis v. Dinkes & Schwitzer

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered May 11, 2005, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The complaint, alleging legal malpractice in the handling of an action to recover for injuries allegedly sustained in an automobile accident, was properly dismissed. In light of plaintiffs admissions and the testimony of his treating physician to the effect that he had not sustained serious injuries in the subject accident, it is plain that plaintiff could not have made the threshold showing of…