Assuming arguendo that defendant attorney committed legal malpractice by advising plaintiff to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, the record demonstrates that such malpractice was not a proximate cause of plaintiff's harm and, accordingly, that plaintiff, herself an attorney, may not recover for it. It is manifest from the record that the plaintiff in the underlying civil securities fraud action would have pressed the allegedly injurious legal claims against...
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