Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
To state a cause of action sounding in legal malpractice, a plaintiff must show that the defendant failed to exercise that degree of care, skill, and diligence commonly exercised by an ordinary member of the legal community, and that but for the attorney's negligence, the plaintiff would have prevailed in the underlying action (see, Kozmol v Law Firm of Allen L. Rothenberg,
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