Simpson & Simpson, PLLC v. Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (John A. Michalek, J.), entered June 24, 2014. The order granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is denied, and the first and second causes of action are reinstated.

*1544Memorandum: Defendants, a law firm and its three managing partners, formerly employed a lead bookkeeper and business manager (hereafter, employee) from May 2000 until February 2008, when the employee resigned. Thereafter, the…