Russo, Scamardella & D'Amato, P.C. v Hanly, Conroy Bie
Motion No: 2007-08096
Slip Opinion No: 2007 NYSlipOp 78752(U)
Decided on September 24, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M60262

T/sl

ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P.

ROBERT A. LIFSON

DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2007-08096

Russo, Scamardella & D'Amato, P.C., respondent,

v Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher &

Hayes, LLP, et al., appellants, et al., defendants.

(Index No. 100803/07)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Separate motions by the appellant Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes, LLP, and the appellant Simmons Cooper, LLC, to stay enforcement of stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, dated August 16, 2007, pending hearing and determination of their appeals therefrom.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motions and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motions are granted to the extent that so much of the order as directed the recipients of any legal fees arising out of the settlement of certain specified actions to place those fees in a separately designated interest-bearing escrow account pending determination of the underlying action is stayed pending hearing and determination of the appeals, and the motions are otherwise denied.

FLORIO, J.P., LIFSON, ANGIOLILLO and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court