CRAMER v. ENGLERT


289 A.D.2d 617 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 275

MORRIS CRAMER, Appellant, v. DENNIS M. ENGLERT et al., Respondents.

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

Decided December 6, 2001.


Carpinello, J.

Most legal malpractice actions involve the resolution of "a `lawsuit within a lawsuit'" (Titsworth v Mondo, 95 Misc.2d 233, 242), a characterization arising from the fact that in order to succeed in a legal malpractice action, a client must prove that but for an attorney's professional negligence, he or she would have obtained a favorable result in the underlying matter for which that attorney had been...

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