In re the Arbitration between Thornton & Naumes, LLP & Athari Law Office

Crew III, J.P

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (McNamara, J.), entered July 25, 2006 in Albany County, which, inter alia, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75, denied respondents’ motion to reargue or renew two prior motions to dismiss the petition and to modify a prior order compelling arbitration.

In 2002, respondent Mohammed J. Athari and his law firm, respondent Athari Law Office, entered into a fee sharing agreement with petitioner Thornton & Naumes, LLP with regard to lead poisoning personal injury cases. In July 2005, Supreme Court granted petitioners’ application to…