OKOLI v. MADUEGBUNA


62 A.D.3d 477 (2009)

LAW OFFICES OF K.C. OKOLI, P.C., Plaintiff, and KENCHUKWU C. OKOLI, Appellant, v. SAMUEL O. MADUEGBUNA et al., Respondents.

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

Decided May 12, 2009.


Plaintiff attorney alleges that he assisted defendants in a contingency fee case for which they paid him 20% of the fee they realized on settlement, in breach of an oral agreement calling for a division of the fee as the parties "had done in the past," and that in all previous contingency-fee cases procured by defendants on which plaintiff had worked, they had paid him 50% of the fee. Contrary to the motion court's ruling, the complaint alleges a course of dealing sufficient...

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