PURIFICATI v. MEYER & DIESENHOUSE


243 A.D.2d 697 (1997)

665 N.Y.S.2d 308

John Purificati, Appellant, v. Meyer & Diesenhouse et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents. Anthony Toots Labella, Third-Party Defendant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 27, 1997


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

For the defendants in a legal malpractice case to succeed on a motion for summary judgment, they must present evidence in admissible form establishing that the plaintiff is unable to prove one of the three essential elements of a malpractice cause of action (see, Greene v Payne, Wood & Littlejohn, 197 A.D.2d 664; see also, Platt...

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