MATTER OF HAYWOODE


225 A.D.2d 420 (1996)

640 N.Y.S.2d 484

In the Matter of M. Douglas Haywoode, Appellant-Respondent; Frost & Berenholtz, Respondent-Appellant David Roman, Plaintiff, v. Arthur Lee et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

March 19, 1996


The hearing court properly allocated the attorneys' fees, especially in light of the outgoing attorney's cavalier attitude with regard to the need for obtaining evidence and medical documentation and his demonstrated inability to produce necessary litigation documents from his file when called upon. While the incoming attorneys cannot be said to have performed yeoman's work, by merely settling the action without having to serve any pleadings or conduct any discovery at all...

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