BILLIS v. LEIGHTON


7 A.D.3d 447 (2004)

776 N.Y.S.2d 792

GEORGE BILLIS, Respondent, v. LEIGHTON, LEIGHTON & LEIGHTON ET AL., Appellants, ET AL., Defendants.

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

May 25, 2004.


Issues of fact exist as to whether appellants continued to represent plaintiff after referring his case to codefendant successor counsel, or should be estopped from denying such continuing representation. Such issues are raised by evidentiary materials indicating that appellants told plaintiff, inter alia, that they had "replace[d]" the associate who was working on plaintiff's case with codefendants, and, responding to plaintiff's concerns about the referral, that codefendants...

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