212 E. 10 N. Y. Bar Ltd. v. Jeffrey Samel & Associates

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Braun, J.), entered on or about December 15, 1997, which, in an action for legal malpractice, denied defendants’ motion to disqualify plaintiffs attorneys, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants, who represented plaintiff as trial counsel in the underlying action, have impleaded the attorneys who successfully represented plaintiff on the appeal in the underlying action and are now representing plaintiff in this malpractice action. Defendants claim that if the adverse judgment after their trial forced plaintiff into bankruptcy then any…