When an attorney has billed a client for legal services rendered, the attorney will presumably send the client bill at regular intervals. If the attorney does regularly invoice the client and the client doesn’t object, then the court can assume there is an “account stated.” This is what occurred in Glassman v Weinberg, 154 AD3d 407 [1st Dept 2017], where the court held:
Plaintiff made a prima facie showing of his entitlement to summary judgment on his account stated claim by providing documentary evidence of the invoices, and an affidavit stating that he sent the invoices on a monthly basis to defendant, and that defendant received the invoices and failed to object to the invoices until this litigation (see L.E.K. Consulting LLC v. Menlo Capital Group, LLC, 148 A.D.3d 527, 528, 52 N.Y.S.3d 1 [1st Dept.2017]; Morrison Cohen Singer & Weinstein, LLP v. Waters, 13 A.D.3d 51, 52, 786 N.Y.S.2d 155 [1st Dept.2004] ).
