Shenouda v. Cohen

In an action to recover damages for breach of a retainer agreement, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Solomon, J.), dated March 8, 2004, which denied his motion for summary judgment and granted the defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff was convicted of attempted murder in the second degree in June 1993. His former trial attorney, the defendant, Lewis D. Cohen, was thereafter retained by the plaintiffs family to prosecute an appeal from the judgment of…