Han Soo Lee v. Riverhead Bay Motors

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Saliann Scarpulla, J.), entered October 18, 2011, which, after a hearing, apportioned less than 5% of the net contingency fee earned in a personal injury action to plaintiffs’ outgoing attorneys, nonparty appellant Edward H. Suh and Associates, PC., and the remainder to the incoming attorneys, Law Office of Kenneth A. Wilhelm, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly apportioned the legal fee to reflect that, while the Suh firm’s services placed plaintiffs on the right path, the Wilhelm firm’s extensive and complex work dwarfed the…