Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 7, 2012 (Blank Rome, LLP v. Parrish)

Insofar as the third-party and proposed amended third-party complaints allege that BMF represented defendant, agreed to represent him with respect to the issues giving rise to the legal malpractice alleged in defendant’s counterclaims, and that BMF was negligent with respect to such representation, the motion court properly declined to dismiss Blank Rome’s third-party claims for contribution