The Court also determined that the breach of contract claims accrued when defendants received fees for the referred cases and refused demands for payment, and that the statute of limitations for any quantum meruit recovery began to run when such cases were disposed of ( id.). In light of our prior decision, the trial court properly determined that plaintiffs breach of contract claims were not time-barred and were triggered upon plaintiffs letter demanding payment dated April 11, 1997 ( Soeiro v Brewer, 237 AD2d 208, 209). However, the court appropriately declined to award damages to plaintiff on a number of the referred cases where he failed to demonstrate sufficiently the payment of legal fees to defendants in those instances.