Categories : Legal Ethics
Failure to Sign a Contingency Fee
Does a lawyer’s failure to sign a contingency fee engagement agreement nullify a lawyer’s charging lien on the proceeds of a settlement?
Categories : Legal Ethics
Successor Lawyers and Contingent Fees
In a contingent fee case, when a successor lawyer from one firm replaces a former lawyer from another firm, must the successor lawyer tell the client in writing that a portion of any contingent fee earned may be paid to the former lawyer?