Russo v. Feder, Kaszovitz, Isaacson, Weber, Skala & Bass, LLP
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Tom, J.
The issue raised in this appeal is whether plaintiff’s legal malpractice claim against former counsel rests on bare speculation regarding what other counsel might have achieved and ignores the deficiency in the underlying personal injury action, so as to warrant dismissal of the malpractice claim.
The legal malpractice action derives from counsel’s representation of plaintiff in an underlying personal injury action. Plaintiff, in the company of a friend, James McMahon, was in a Pergament store in the Centereach Mall, Long Island, on January 12, 1993 when he fell in…
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