Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Although the appellant attorney was not simultaneously acting as a fiduciary to the estate he represented, the Surrogate did not exceed his statutory authority in ordering the executor to file an account and in reviewing the appellant attorney's requested $95,000 counsel fee (cf., SCPA 2307). As we have recently observed, "[i]t is by now well settled that the Surrogate bears the ultimate responsibility...
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