Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
To establish a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove that (1) the attorney failed to exercise that degree of care, skill, and diligence commonly possessed by a member of the legal community, (2) the attorney's conduct was the proximate cause of the loss sustained by the plaintiff, (3) the plaintiff sustained damages as a direct result of the attorney...
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