Garson v. Rapping

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In order to establish proximate cause, a plaintiff must demonstrate that but for the attorney’s negligence, she would have prevailed in the underlying matter or would not have sustained any ascertainable damages.”
• an action for legal malpractice requires proof of three elements: “(1) that the attorney was negligent; (2) that such negligence was a proximate cause of plaintiffs losses; and (3) proof of actual damages.”
• to succeed on a legal malpractice claim, the plaintiff must show that “but for the attorney’s negligence, she would have prevailed in the underlying matter or would not have sustained any ascertainable damages”
• “An action for legal malpractice requires proof of three elements: (1) that the attorney was negligent; (2) that such negligence was a proximate cause of plaintiff's losses; and (3) proof of actual damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).