Pyne v. Block & Associates

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Kornreich, J.), entered on or about May 1, 2002, which, in this legal malpractice action, granted defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) and dismissed the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Even assuming the truth of the material allegations of the complaint, and according plaintiff the benefit of all reasonable inferences, the complaint fails to plead a cognizable claim for malpractice since it does not permit the inference that, but for defendants’ failure to name certain parties as defendants in…