Liebert v. Gelbwaks

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, J.), entered June 10, 1994, which, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to set aside the jury verdict or, alternatively, to direct a new trial, unanimously modified, on the law, to set aside the verdict insofar as it awarded plaintiff treble damages against defendant Gelbwaks pursuant to Judiciary Law § 487, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

We find that the award of treble damages against defendant Gelbwaks must be set aside. The statute at issue, Judiciary Law § 487 (2), provides, in pertinent part: "An attorney or…