Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
An attorney may be liable for malpractice where there is proof that he or she failed to exercise the skill commonly exercised by an ordinary member of the legal community, and that but for such negligence, the plaintiff would have prevailed in the underlying action (see, McCoy v Tepper,
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