Giannotti v. Mercedes Benz U.S.A., LLC

*390In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Burke, J.), dated August 31, 2004, which denied the motion of his attorney-of-record for the admission pro hac vice of two individual California attorneys to appear on his behalf as co-counsel in this action.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion, with costs, and the motion is granted.

Prior to commencing this action, the plaintiff contacted his attorney-of-record in New York (hereinafter the New York attorney)…