LaSalle Talman Bank, F.S.B. v Weisblum & Felice
2012 NY Slip Op 06864 [99 AD3d 543]
October 16, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 28, 2012


LaSalle Talman Bank, F.S.B., Appellant,
v
Weisblum & Felice et al., Respondents.

[*1] Vedder Price P.C., New York (Daniel C. Green of counsel), for appellant.

Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman, LLP, New York (Shelley R. Halber of counsel), for Weisblum & Felice and Jon B. Felice, respondents.

Steinberg & Cavaliere, LLP, White Plains (James F. Creighton of counsel), for The Law Offices of Jordan S. Katz, P.C. and Jordan S. Katz, respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered April 14, 2011, which, in an action to recover damages for alleged malpractice, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendants' cross motions, pursuant to CPLR 3126, to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The complaint was properly dismissed, given that plaintiff failed to comply with two court orders despite the fact that the second order clearly warned plaintiff that its action would be dismissed unless it complied. Plaintiff's supplemental discovery response was late and incomplete, its excuse for failing to respond in a timely manner lacks merit, and it has not offered any excuse for those documents that it has still not exchanged. Thus, it can be reasonably inferred that plaintiff's conduct has been willful and contumacious (see Johnson v City of New York, 188 AD2d 302, 303 [1st Dept 1992]).

We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Sweeny, Acosta, Renwick and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.