Londoff v. Vuylsteke

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Judge.

In this case plaintiff, who formerly was an attorney, sought to recover, under an oral fee splitting agreement, 50% of an attorney’s fee from defendants after one of the defendants, an attorney, settled a lawsuit for $120,500.00. The trial court entered summary judgment in the settling attorney’s favor on the grounds that the fee splitting agreement was unenforceable under the Rules of Professional Conduct because plaintiff did not allege or raise a fact issue that he performed services proportionate to the fee or assumed joint responsibility for the lawsuit in a…