Case Name: Genesis Merchant Partners, LP, et al., Appellants, v. Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane LLC et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2017-04-11
Citations: 149 A.D.3d 469
Docket Number: 
Parties: Genesis Merchant Partners, LP, et al., Appellants, v Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane LLC et al., Respondents.
Judges: Concur — Sweeny, J.P., Andrias, Moskow-itz, Kahn and Gesmer, JJ.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 149
Pages: 469–469

Head Matter:
Genesis Merchant Partners, LP, et al., Appellants, v Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane LLC et al., Respondents.
[49 NYS3d 886]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nancy M. Bannon, J.), entered on or about June 23, 2015, which to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, upon defendants' motion to dismiss, dismissed plaintiffs' breach of fiduciary duty cause of action as duplicative of their legal malpractice cause of action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Defendants' alleged failure to disclose their legal malpractice does not give rise to a separate action for breach of fiduciary duty (Garnett v Fox, Horan & Camerini, LLP, 82 AD3d 435, 436 [1st Dept 2011]). Plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged defendants' overbilling to support a separate cause of action (cf. Cherry Hill Mkt. Corp. v Cozen O'Connor P.C., 118 AD3d 514, 514 [1st Dept 2014] [breach of fiduciary duty claim was not duplicative where, among other things, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had overbilled the plaintiffs]).
We have considered plaintiffs' remaining contentions and find them unavailing.
Concur — Sweeny, J.P., Andrias, Moskow-itz, Kahn and Gesmer, JJ.