Dani Zoldan Sued by Dani Zoldan's Lawyers
The law firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole alleges that Zoldan and his business partner owe them money for its work in a 2022 lawsuit brought by two former employees.
Stand Up NY owner Dani Zoldan was sued in the New York Supreme Court this week by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, the law firm that represented him in a 2022 lawsuit against two former employees who alleged a range of labor abuses by Zoldan and the club. That lawsuit settled in 2023 for $115,000, although the plaintiffs sued again earlier this year, alleging that the defendants failed to pay the agreed-upon. (More specifically, they allege that the club’s checks bounced.) Now Zoldan’s lawyers are alleging that he didn’t pay them, either.
Seth Simons
The complaint, filed on Monday, also names Zoldan’s co-owner at Stand Up NY, Gabriel Waldman. It alleges that in 2022, the two signed a retainer with the firm in which they agreed to pay between $350 and $845 per hour for its services. The final bill ended up at $45,743, of which Zoldan and Waldman allegedly paid only $2,500. Ellenoff Grossman & Schole is seeking the outstanding $43,243 plus $7,500 in legal fees in the case, to which the defendants have yet to respond.
Seth Simons
In addition to the new lawsuit from his former employees, Zoldan is also facing lawsuits from the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, which alleges that he owes it money from a 2023 festival benefiting the charity; Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, a liquor vendor that alleges he owes it money for goods and services rendered; and LCF Group, the financier that alleges in multiple cases that Zoldan and his entities failed to repay cash advances. Last year he relocated Stand Up NY from its longtime Upper West Side venue to Times Square, shortly following the resolution of a strike by nine employees who said the club owed them money.
I’ve reached out to Zoldan and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole for comment.
