13830N. JULIE KAREN NACOS, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN CHRISTOPHER NACOS, def-res, MICHAEL LEICHTLING Nonparty ap — McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C., Albany (Bruce J. Wagner of counsel), for ap — Warshaw Burstein, LLP, New York (Eric Wrubel of counsel), for res — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Deborah A. Kaplan, J.), entered June 4, 2014, which denied nonparty appellants’ motion to reject a special referee’s report and recommendation, dated March 10, 2004, and granted defendant’s cross motion to confirm the report and recommendation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properly concluded that there was no basis for a protective order or an order quashing a document request in subpoenas served on appellants. Appellants, the father and brother of plaintiff, failed to establish that an attorney-client relationship existed between them and plaintiff in this divorce action. Accordingly, they failed to establish that the requested correspondence is privileged based on such a relationship (see Matter of Priest v. Hennessy, 51 NY2d 62, 68-69 [1980]; see also Spectrum Sys. Intl. Corp. v. Chemical Bank, 78 NY2d 371, 377-378 [1991]). The motion court correctly noted that appellants, both of whom are attorneys, but not matrimonial lawyers, and neither of whom appeared in the divorce proceedings, failed to state specific legal tasks they performed, or legal advice they provided, on plaintiff’s behalf (Pellegrino v. Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., 49 AD3d 94, 99 [1st Dept 2008]; Coastal Oil N.Y. v. Peck, 184 AD2d 241, 241 [1st Dept 1992]), and their conclusory statements are insufficient (Coastal, 184 AD2d at 241). To the extent that appellants helped plaintiff select counsel, this alone does not establish an attorneyclient relationship. In addition, to the extent that plaintiff’s brother helped her understand certain financial documents, this, without more, does not demonstrate that he advised her on legal, rather than business, matters (see Rossi v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Greater N.Y., 73 NY2d 588, 594 [1989]).