Clients think about suing their attorney; they think long and hard.  Sometimes, they get distracted, and time passes.  Sometimes too much consideration leads to too much delay. As an example, in this case Plaintiff’s mother brought a personal injury case against the City of New York for plaintiff from an injury of December 20, 2002. She retained defendant attorneys to represent her. She discharged the attorneys via a "Consent to Change Attorneys" in August , 2006. She brought the legal malpractice case Fleyshman v Suckle & Schlesinger, PLLC ; 2012 NY Slip Op 00176 ; Appellate Division, Second Department. This case was dismissed on the statute of limitations.

"The Supreme Court erred in denying that branch of the defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss the first cause of action, alleging legal malpractice, as time-barred. The defendants sustained their initial burden by demonstrating, prima facie, that the alleged legal malpractice occurred more than three years before this action was commenced in May 2010 (see CPLR 214[6]; Rupolo v Fish, 87 AD3d 684, 685; Krichmar v Scher, 82 AD3d 1164, 1165). In response, the plaintiff failed to raise a question of fact as to whether the statute of limitations was [*2]tolled by the doctrine of continuous representation. All of the documentary evidence demonstrated that the relationship necessary to invoke the continuous representation doctrine terminated in August 2006, and the plaintiff’s submissions did not indicate that her trust and confidence in the defendants continued, or was restored, after that date (see Rupolo v Fish, 87 AD3d 684; Krichmar v Scher, 82 AD3d at 1165; Marro v Handwerker, Marchelos & Gayner, 1 AD3d 488; Piliero v Adler & Stavros, 282 AD2d 511, 512; Aaron v Roemer, Wallens & Mineaux, 272 AD2d 752, 754-755).

Moreover, the Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) to dismiss the second cause of action, which alleged a violation of Judiciary Law § 487. Even as amplified by the plaintiff’s affidavit, and according the plaintiff the benefit of every favorable inference (see Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83), the complaint failed to allege that the defendants acted "with intent to deceive the court or any party" (Judiciary Law § 487[1]; see Jaroslawicz v Cohen, 12 AD3d 160, 160-161). Further, the plaintiff’s allegation that the defendants "willfully delayed [her] recovery with a view to their own ends and benefit" is a bare legal conclusion, "which is not entitled to the presumption of truth normally afforded to the allegations of a complaint" (Rozen v Russ & Russ, P.C., 76 AD3d 965, 969; see Judiciary Law § 487[2]). "