O'CONNELL v. Kerson
Decision Date | 04 February 2002 |
Citation | 736 N.Y.S.2d 895,291 A.D.2d 386 |
Parties | DANIEL J. O'CONNELL, Appellant,<BR>v.<BR>PAUL E. KERSON et al., Respondents. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that the respondents are awarded one bill of costs.
The Supreme Court correctly granted that branch of the respondents' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in this action to recover damages for attorney misconduct pursuant to Judiciary Law § 487 (1). The record is devoid of any evidence of either intent by the respondents to deceive, or a chronic, extreme pattern of legal delinquency that proximately caused the appellant's alleged damages (see, Ulrich v Hausfeld, 269 AD2d 526; Estate of Steinberg v Harmon, 259 AD2d 318; O'Connor v Dime Sav. Bank of N.Y., 265 AD2d 313).
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