KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN, LLP v. READE

7495, 101547/10, 7495A.

98 A.D.3d 403 (2012)

950 N.Y.S.2d 8

2012 NY Slip Op 5888

KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN, LLP, Appellant, v. DUANE READE et al., Respondents.

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

Decided August 7, 2012.


This is a dispute over whether plaintiff Kasowitz law firm is entitled to a success fee in addition to the flat $1 million fee it has already received in connection with its representation of defendant Duane Reade. The issues are whether the parties' emails established a binding fee agreement, and whether the fee was to be limited to the moneys Duane Reade received in settlement of the underlying Cardtronics litigation, or was to encompass all of the benefits Duane Reade...

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