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RUFFOLO v. GARBARINI & SCHER

239 A.D.2d 8 (1998)

668 N.Y.S.2d 169

Saverio D. Ruffolo, Appellant, v. Garbarini & Scher, P. C., et al., Respondents

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

January 20, 1998

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Drotzer of counsel, White Plains (Drotzer & Drotzer, attorneys), for appellant.

Nancy A. Breslow of counsel, New York City (Garbarini & Scher, P. C., attorneys), respondent pro se, and for others, respondents.

ROSENBERGER, NARDELLI and WALLACH, JJ., concur.

SULLIVAN, J. P.

The question on this appeal is whether plaintiff's legal malpractice claim is rendered time barred by a recent amendment to CPLR 214 (6), which applies a three-year Statute of Limitations to such malpractice claims,1 irrespective of the underlying legal theory. Prior to the effective date of the amendment, and at the time the action was commenced, the six-year Statute...

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