In a high-profile attorney fees dispute over $5.5 million involving personal injury lawyer Benedict Morelli and his former client, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has turned back, at the dismissal stage, Morelli’s argument that he didn’t need his client’s return signature on his plan to charge an additional 10% contingency fee for post-trial work.

Morelli said late Friday that he will appeal the trial-court ruling to the Appellate Division, First Department.

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