Blumert v. Nanny Hagen Leasing, Ltd.

—In a proceeding to determine the amount of the attorney’s fee owed by the estate to the former attorney for the decedent in an underlying personal injury action, the former attorney for the decedent, Charles Berkman, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Rockland County *643(Weiner, S.), dated May 22, 2000, as awarded him an attorney’s fee in the sum of only $28,000.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law and the facts, by deleting the provision thereof awarding the appellant an attorney’s fee in the sum of $28,000 and substituting therefor a…