Hirsch v. Fink

*431As defendant did not represent plaintiff in the underlying accounting action at the time the conditional order of preclusion was issued or in the next 30 days, during which plaintiff was to provide outstanding discovery, he was not responsible for plaintiffs answer being stricken (see Maksimiak v Schwartzapfel Novick Truhowsky Marcus, P.C., 82 AD3d 652 [2011]). Contrary to plaintiffs contention, his attorney-client relationship with defendant did not continue indefinitely simply because it was not terminated in writing (see Leffler v Mills, 285 AD2d 774, 776-777 [2001]). The record contains…