Absent attorney costs woman her company
By WILLIAM J. GORTA
Last Updated: 12:30 AM, October 25, 2010
Posted: 12:30 AM, October 25, 2010
Comments: 0 More Print A Queens woman who says her company was stolen from her can't recover the business -- or void a $2 million judgment -- because of a clerical error, according to court papers.
Christine Persaud is appealing a ruling in which she lost everything when her lawyer missed a court appearance and a Brooklyn judge refused to accept the attorney's excuse that he was in court on another matter.
Persaud last year was battling an arbitrator's ruling granting half of Caring Home Care, plus $2 million, to financier Abraham Klein when her then-lawyer, Eugene Levy, notified Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Arthur Shack that he had an appearance in Queens on the same day.
Klein's lawyer refused to go along with the routine request, and Shack awarded a default judgment against Persaud, 42.
"I worked so hard to build that company since 1997," she said. "They stole my business."
Klein's lawyer, Mendel Zilberberg, declined to comment. Levy did not return a call for comment.
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is that like the slip and fall attorneys we see near the hospital emergency wards?
ReplyDeleteDo the Ambulance Chasers still hang out there?
ReplyDeleteShould set up a coffee stand for them.