Galloway Jefcoat, LLP v. Keating

SAUNDERS, Judge.

[ ,This ease involves a dispute over the division of attorney’s fees between a bankruptcy attorney and a firm. The bankruptcy attorney, with a practice established prior to his employment with the firm, was later terminated by the firm for what it deemed improper retention of fees collected by the attorney.

The firm filed suit against the attorney for recovery of the fees and its damages suffered as a result of having to reallocate the time of salaried employees to investigate the activities of the attorney in representing its clients. The attorney reconvened against the firm…