Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 27, 2011 (Catinella v. Mecca & Son Trucking Corp.)

This appeal concerns a dispute over the division of a contingency fee between the plaintiffs outgoing and incoming counsel in an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The Supreme Court awarded the outgoing counsel an attorney’s fee in the sum of $17,500, which amounted to approximately seven percent of the total net contingency fee of $246,476.14.