Palmeri v. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered November 5, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny in part defendant’s motion for summary judgment, and reinstate the first cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

In January 2001, nonparty Ramius Securities LLC hired plaintiff Dennis T. Palmeri, Jr. to serve as manager of its stock lending securities department. At some point in 2007, the…