Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Spinner, faced with a request to vacate an earlier ruling, wrote: "Counsel has the insufferable temerity to actually admonish this Court for expressing its distress over the terms and conditions of Plaintiff's over-reaching retainer agreement (clearly a contract of adhesion on its face)."
August 06, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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A matrimonial firm has lost a bid to collect about $52,700 in legal fees after a state judge found its retainer agreement "usurious on its face."
The firm, 10-lawyer Bryan L. Salamone & Associates on Long Island, asked Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Spinner (See Profile) in Suffolk County to vacate his earlier ruling dismissing the case, arguing that he "misapplied the law" when he found problems with the retainer.
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