The court properly dismissed the complaint for failure to establish proximate cause, a necessary element of legal malpractice, since even if a timely request for an extension to make payments under the underlying settlement agreement had been made, opposing counsel in that underlying action had unfettered discretion to grant or deny such a request (see, Senise v Mackasek,
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