LANKENAU KOVNER & KURTZ v. MARTIN


240 A.D.2d 346 (1997)

659 N.Y.S.2d 757

Lankenau Kovner & Kurtz, as Successor in Interest to Lankenau & Bickford and Another, Plaintiff, v. Eugene F. Martin, Jr., Appellant, and Kenneth Rubinstein, P. C., Respondent

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

June 26, 1997


The parties entered into two separate retainer agreements, one pertaining to the Lankenau action against the client, for which the billing was to be on an hourly basis, and the other pertaining to estate planning and asset protection, which called for a flat $5,000 fee. The client paid the full $5,000 called for in the latter retainer upon receipt of documents represented as the work product called for therein, and now claims that the bulk of the services for which...

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