Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft v. Spinale

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eugene Nardelli, J.), entered August 7, 1992, which, upon a jury verdict, awarded plaintiff the sum of $33,027.88 as against defendants, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion in precluding the use of the C.P.A.’s testimony and restricting defendant Spinale’s private attorney’s testimony. Not only was the C.P.A. unqualified to opine as to the value of legal services, his testimony would have sought to draw factual conclusions from the evidence, a function within the province of the jury. As for Spinale’s…