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DeNATALE v. SANTANGELO

65 A.D.3d 1006 (2009)

884 N.Y.S.2d 868

JOSEPH DeNATALE, Appellant, v. MICHAEL G. SANTANGELO et al., Defendants, and RONALD A. BALL et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided September 8, 2009.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

To establish a cause of action to recover damages for legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove "that the defendant-attorney failed to exercise that degree of care, skill, and diligence commonly possessed by a member of the legal community," and "that the defendant-attorney's negligence was a proximate cause of damages" (Barnett v Schwartz, 47 A.D.3d 197, 203-204 [2007]).

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