A divorce attorney who failed to bill his client at statutory 60-day intervals can still collect a fee for his services, a New York state judge has ruled. Law firm partner Saul Edelstein, who attributed the failure to timely bill his former client to "office failure, typical stress of running an office," said he did not expect "to see a dime" but hoped the decision would help other lawyers seeking to recover legitimately owed fees. "Lawyers are not all crooks," he said.
March 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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A divorce attorney who failed to bill his client at statutory 60-day intervals can still collect a fee for his services, a New York state judge has ruled.
“Although an attorney’s failure to provide itemized bills at least every 60 days will preclude collection of a fee for services rendered … where there has been ‘substantial compliance’ with the rules, recovery of fees has been allowed,” Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Mark I. Partnow held in Edelstein v. Greisman, 18848/08.
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