Furlender v. Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered October 20, 2009, which granted defendant-respondent law firm’s (defendant) motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) to dismiss the action as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The affidavit of defendant’s attorney was a proper vehicle for the submission of acceptable attachments providing “ ‘evidentiary proof in admissible form’, e.g., documents,” even though the attorney had no first-hand knowledge of the underlying facts (Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 563 [1980]). Those documents, prepared by…