Courtney v. Hall-Edwards

WELLS, Judge.

We quash the decision of the court below denying any fee award to a discharged attorney who sought to enforce a charging lien for $114,250 in fees — an amount stipulated as reasonable — following a settlement post-dating a $19,000,000 jury award. This order, while acknowledging that the petitioner/lawyer is “a fine lawyer” who conducted the initial investigation in this case and conducted “well-drafted general crashworthiness discovery,” was entitled to no fee whatsoever for his efforts because subsequent counsel had to fight long and hard before the case finally settled, thereby…