The complaint was properly dismissed as against the law firm defendant Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., and the individual attorney defendants, Ronald M. Green and Barry Aspen. It is well settled that attorneys are "immunized from liability under the shield afforded attorneys in advising their clients, even when such advice is erroneous, in the absence of fraud, collusion, malice or bad faith" (Beatie v DeLong,
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