A law firm’s failure to provide detailed invoices to a former client has led a judge to deny the firm’s summary judgment motion in its suit over unpaid legal bills.
“Due to the complete absence of any description of the services plaintiff performed, it is impossible to ascertain whether any of the services were even for defendant’s defense, let alone whether they fell within the services defendant authorized,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings (See Profile) wrote in allowing the case to proceed. “This gross imprecision in the invoices themselves is ground alone to deny plaintiff’s motion.”
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