Katz

—Plaintiff Computer Prepared Accounts, Inc. (CPA) appeals from an order denying its application for a preliminary injunction and awarding attorney’s fees and sanctions against it. We affirm, and also award $10,000 in sanctions to Jerome Marks, a professional corporation, for which CPA and James L. Dawson are jointly and severally liable. We award $10,000 to the court, for which Dawson and CPA are jointly and severally liable. Finally, we award $500 in sanctions to Jerome Marks, a professional corporation, for which Mark D. Wuerfel is liable.

Facts and Procedural Background

CPA is a corporation which sells computer equipment and creates specialized computer software programs for its customers. Between February 1985 and December 1987 CPA employed defendant William Stockman as a computer programmer. In the course of his duties Stockman worked on the computer system developed for defendant Katz & Glassberg, a law firm specializing in the collection of commercial claims. According to Katz & Glassberg, the system did not function properly and was not completed or maintained as promised despite repeated requests to correct the inadequacies. In December 1987 Stockman left CPA.…