Tuff & Rumble Management Inc. v. Landmark Distributors, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered December 9, 1996, which, inter alia, upon plaintiff client’s motion for substitution of counsel, directed appellant outgoing attorney to immediately deliver plaintiff’s case file to the incoming attorney, and referred the issue of the reasonable value of appellant’s services to a Special Referee to hear and report, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to delete the directive to deliver the case file, direct fact finding on the amount of appellant’s disbursements, and direct that such amount be paid or secured…