Weinberg v. Sultan

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J.), entered February 17, 2016, which denied nonparty appellant’s motion for an order allowing him to release funds held by him as escrow agent to pay legal fees owed to him by plaintiff, his former client/ and granted the cross motion of nonparty Brennan Law Firm PLLC, plaintiff’s successor counsel, to the extent of determining that the escrow funds should be transferred to that firm to be held in escrow, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Appellant, who represented plaintiff in unsuccessful litiga tion seeking, among other things, to…