A plaintiff’s challenge to the reasonableness of $136,000 in attorney fees she was ordered to pay to three law firms as discovery-abuse sanctions failed, thanks in part to testimony and detailed invoicing from the lawyers involved the case.

An Appellate Division, First Department panel also ruled, in its decision addressing various challenges made by Suzanne Mangold Zacharius to a court-appointed special referee’s attorney sanctions, that her “contention that certain specific entries in defendants’ [attorneys’] time records are excessive is improperly raised for the first time on appeal,” citing 1199 Hous. Corp. v. Jimco Restoration Corp.

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