Legal Opinion
Diakrousis v. Maganga
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 9, 2009PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karen S. Smith, J.), entered July 27, 2007, which, in a dispute between plaintiffs outgoing and incoming counsel as to the division of a $1,000,000 contingency fee earned in a personal injury action, apportioned 70% of the contingency fee to plaintiffs incoming attorneys Finkelstein & Partners, L.L.P (Finkelstein) and 30% to the outgoing attorneys Trief & Olk (T & O), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court’s apportionment of the contingency fee was a provident exercise of discretion (see Ebrahimian v Long Is. R.R., 269 AD2d 488 [2000]). The…
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