For a second time, a judge has denied Boies Schiller & Flexner’s summary judgment motion seeking legal fees against a former client—family members of Modell’s Sporting Goods scion Mitchell Modell.

Boies Schiller represented Shelby and Leslie Modell, a mother and daughter embroiled in a long-running dispute with Mitchell Modell over his leadership of the family’s East Coast retail chain (NYLJ, Aug. 29, 2013).