Friedman v. Eisenstein

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shelia Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered October 9, 1998, in an action between former law partners concerning the splitting of a contingency fee earned after the dissolution of their partnership, awarding plaintiff damages with prejudgment interest, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We agree with the IAS Court that based on the plain terms of the fee-sharing agreement the parties entered into upon dissolving their partnership, and defendant’s own description of his services in connection with the case that generated the contingency fee in issue, defendant…