In re the Arbitration between Rachel's Trousseau, Inc. & Warshaw Woolen Associates, Inc.

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered August 15, 1996, which, inter alia, granted respondent’s cross motion for sanctions and directed that petitioner and its attorney pay respondent and its attorney $4,000 and pay the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection $1,000, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Sanctions were properly imposed in an appropriate amount for frivolous persistence in advancing a completely meritless argument, without regard for proper procedure (22 NYCRR 130-1.1 [c]). Petitioner’s attorney was present at oral argument and…