Opinion
November 1, 1990
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Fingerhood, J.).
Plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for alleged legal malpractice. The complaint fails to allege any specific facts to show that the defendant attorneys acted negligently. Rather, plaintiff alleges only that the process server hired to serve process on plaintiff's wife in the divorce action in connection with which defendants were retained never served plaintiff's wife yet forwarded an affidavit of service to defendants. The allegations that defendants were thereafter negligent are wholly conclusory, and are therefore legally insufficient to charge an attorney with negligence and malpractice. (Parker Chapin Flattau Klimpl v. Daelen Corp., 59 A.D.2d 375, 378.)
Concur — Kupferman, J.P., Sullivan, Milonas, Ellerin and Rubin, JJ.