Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1981

Marcelli v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

Marcelli v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 2, 1981
80 A.D.2d 827; 436 N.Y.S.2d 350; 1981 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10638
Marcelli v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

Appeals by plaintiff’s outgoing attorney (1) from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated October 4, 1979, which fixed its lien at 20% of the total fees that will eventually be earned by the plaintiff’s new attorney and, (2) as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the same court dated October 30, 1979, as, upon granting reargument adhered to the original *828determination. Appeal from the order dated October 4, 1979 dismissed, without costs or disbursements. This order was superseded by the order granting reargument. Order dated October 30, 1979 modified, on the law and the facts, by vacating the order dated October 4, 1979 and by increasing the amount of the lien to 50%. As so modified order affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements. In the circumstances of this case, the fixing of the appellant’s lien at 20% of the total fees that will eventually be earned by the plaintiff’s new attorney was an improvident exercise of discretion. The amount of the lien should be increased as indicated. Gibbons, J.P., Rabin, Gulotta and Margett, JJ., concur.

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