Plaintiff failed to timely answer defendant Johnson's counterclaims, or to oppose the motion for a default judgment, and his counsel's perfunctory excuse of law office failure, based on a purported reassignment of the case within the law firm, was not reasonable, particularly given defendants' showing that plaintiff was represented by the same lawyer at the firm throughout the action (see Fernandez v Santos,
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