Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff must establish that the attorney failed to exercise the skill, care, and diligence commonly possessed and exercised by an attorney, that such negligence proximately caused his damages, and that, but for the defendant's negligence, the result he or she sought could or would have been achieved (see Zeitlin v Greenberg, Margolis...
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