CUSIMANO v. WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & DICKER LLP

152754/13, 12764, 12763.

118 A.D.3d 542 (2014)

988 N.Y.S.2d 157

2014 NY Slip Op 4428

RITA CUSIMANO, Appellant, v. WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & DICKER LLP et al., Respondents.

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

Decided June 17, 2014.


Plaintiff failed to allege facts that would satisfy the proximate cause element, namely, that "but-for" defendants' alleged inadequate and ineffective representation of her in the underlying arbitration, she would have succeeded in demonstrating that her parents lacked an ownership interest in a contested family asset (see Lieblich v Pruzan, 104 A.D.3d 462 [1st Dept 2013]). Plaintiff stated that if defendants had introduced her parents...

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