A plaintiffs attorney was sanctioned $3,000 and ordered to pay his adversary’s legal fees after he failed to disclose to the court and opposing counsel, amid settlement discussions, that his client had died months earlier.
Brandon D. Sherr, an associate of the Law Office of Justin A. Zeller in Manhattan, a wage-and-hour plaintiffs firm, did not disclose that his client had died until eight months after his death and four months after he said he learned of it, according to U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York in a Sept. 8 decision.
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