J-Mar Service Center, Inc. v. Mahoney, Connor & Hussey
Decision Date | 10 January 2005 |
Docket Number | 2003-05910. |
Citation | 14 A.D.3d 482,787 N.Y.S.2d 390,2005 NY Slip Op 00128 |
Parties | J-MAR SERVICE CENTER, INC., et al., Respondents, v. MAHONEY, CONNOR & HUSSEY et al., Defendants, and DONAL M. MAHONEY et al., Appellants. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs payable by the appellants appearing separately and filing separate briefs.
To prevail in an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiffs must establish that the defendants "failed to exercise that degree of care, skill, and diligence commonly possessed and exercised by an ordinary member of the legal community, that such negligence was the proximate cause of the actual damages sustained by the plaintiffs, and that, but for the defendant's negligence, the plaintiffs would have been successful in the underlying action" (Laventure v Galeno, 307 AD2d 255 [2003]).
With regard to the defendants Donal M. Mahoney and Brian M. Hussey, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the motion made by them and the defendant Mahoney, Connor & Hussey which was for summary judgment dismissing the cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice insofar as asserted against them (see CPLR 3212). To succeed on a motion for summary judgment, those defendants were required to demonstrate that the plaintiffs were unable to prove at least one of the essential elements of a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice (see Allen v Potruch, 282 AD2d 484 [2001]). The defendants Donal M. Mahoney and Brian M. Hussey...
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