97 N.Y.2d 295 (N.Y. 2001) Cited 697 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that two partners at a law firm were in privity with a third partner and had had the full and fair opportunity to litigate their claims when the third partner had litigated them because their interests were "aligned" with that of the third partner, their "right to receive payments were coextensive" with the right of the third partner, and they recognized that adjudication of the third partner's claim would have "consequences for them."