| Tran Han Ho v Brackley |
| 2010 NY Slip Op 00575 [69 AD3d 533] |
| January 28, 2010 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Tran Han Ho et al., Appellants, v Patrick J. Brackley,Respondent. |
—[*1] L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, L.L.P., Garden City (Noah Nunberg of counsel), forrespondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered August 14, 2008,which, in an action for legal malpractice, granted defendant's motion for summary judgmentdismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properlyrefused to consider the surreply affirmation of plaintiffs' legal expert presented to the court afterthe motion had been fully submitted (see Foitl v G.A.F. Corp., 64 NY2d 911 [1985]).Absent an expert's affidavit, and given claims that, as pleaded, raise issues of professionalstandards and causation beyond the ordinary experience of persons who are not lawyers,summary judgment was properly granted (see Ehlinger v Ruberti, Girvin & Ferlazzo,304 AD2d 925, 926 [2003]; cf. Butler v Brown, 180 AD2d 406, 407 [1992], lvdenied 80 NY2d 751 [1992], citing S & D Petroleum Co. v Tamsett, 144 AD2d 849,850 [1988]). We have considered plaintiffs' other arguments and find them to be without merit.Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Manzanet-Daniels and RomÁn, JJ.[Prior Case History: 2008 NY Slip Op 32269(U).]