Thompson v Cooper (2009 NY Slip Op 06967)

Thompson v Cooper

2009 NY Slip Op 06967 [66 AD3d 1405]

October 2, 2009

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Justine Thompson, Respondent,
v
Michael Cooper, Esq., et al., Appellants. (Appeal No. 1.)

—[*1] Cellino & Barnes, P.C., Buffalo (Gregory V. Pajak of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

S. Robert Williams, PLLC, Syracuse (Michelle Rudderow of counsel) and Burke & Burke, Rochester, for plaintiff-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Gerald J. Whalen, J.), entered March 7, 2008 in a legal malpractice action. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied in part the motion of defendants to dismiss the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Supreme Court. Present—Scudder, P.J., Martoche, Peradotto and Gorski, JJ.