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FREEMAN v. BRECHER

4930, 152087/15.

155 A.D.3d 453 (2017)

64 N.Y.S.3d 13

2017 NY Slip Op 07949

MARJATTA FREEMAN, Appellant, v. DAN BRECHER, ESQ., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided November 14, 2017.

Plaintiff's claim for legal malpractice in connection with an underlying settlement fails to state a cause of action in the absence of allegations that the "settlement ... was effectively compelled by the mistakes of [defendant] counsel" (Bernstein v Oppenheim & Co., 160 A.D.2d 428, 430 [1st Dept 1990]) or the result of fraud or coercion (see Beattie v Brown & Wood, 243 A.D.2d 395

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