DeLorenzo v. Perlman

In a proceeding to enforce an attorney’s lien pursuant to Judiciary Law § 475, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), dated June 20, 2002, which awarded him only 1% of the total attorney’s fee.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof awarding the petitioner 1% of the total attorney’s fee, and substituting therefor a provision awarding him 5% of the total attorney’s fee collected on the judgment as of the date of the petitioner’s application; as so modified, the order is…