Gonzalez v. Gordon

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered October 25, 1995, which, after a nonjury trial, inter alia, awarded plaintiff money damages upon a finding that defendant attorney engaged in an impermissible conflict of interest and disbursed approximately $39,000 in client escrow finds without authority, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the awards of treble damages under Judiciary Law § 487 on the first and second causes of action, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

There is ample evidence to support the trial court’s…