Roslyn Union Free School Dist. v Barkan
2011 NY Slip Op 05687 [85 AD3d 1148]
June 28, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 10, 2011


Roslyn Union Free School District, Respondent,
v
Michael Barkan et al., Defendants, and William Costigan et al., Appellants.

—[*1] Sokoloff Stern LLP, Westbury, N.Y. (Brian S. Sokoloff, Adam I. Kleinberg, and Mark A. Radi of counsel), for appellants.

Farrell Fritz, P.C., Uniondale, N.Y. (James M. Wicks, Aaron E. Zerykier, and Ethan A. Kobre of counsel), for respondent.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence, the defendants William Costigan, Ronna Niederman, Patricia Schissel, and Ellen Siegel appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Cozzens, Jr., J.), dated July 15, 2010, which denied their motion to disqualify the plaintiff's counsel.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the appellants' motion to disqualify the plaintiff's counsel (see Tekni-Plex, Inc. v Meyner & Landis, 89 NY2d 123, 131 [1996]; Solow v Grace & Co., 83 NY2d 303, 308 [1994]; Talvy v American Red Cross in Greater N.Y., 205 AD2d 143, 148-149 [1994], affd 87 NY2d 826 [1995]). Rivera, J.P., Florio, Austin and Cohen, JJ., concur.