Stettner v. Bendet

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered on or about May 3, 1995, which, in an action for legal malpractice, denied defendant attorney’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, or, in the alternative, to stay the action pending resolution of the underlying medical malpractice action, and which denied plaintiff client’s cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously modified, on the facts, to grant the attorney’s motion to the extent of staying the action pending either discharge of the underlying liability or resolution of the underlying action, and…