Bailey, Marshall & Hoeniger v. Merzon

—In a proceeding pursuant to Judiciary Law § 475 to fix reasonable counsel fees, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Smith, J.), dated August 19, 1993, which, after a nonjury trial, inter alia, fixed the petitioner’s charging lien at $25,000.

Ordered that the order is modified, as a matter of discretion, by (1) deleting the first decretal paragraph thereof, and substituting therefor a provision determining that a reasonable counsel fee to be awarded to the appellant is the amount of $85,000, and (2) deleting the second decretal paragraph thereof, and…