Leventhal v. Black & LoBello

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, C.J.:

This is an appeal from an order adjudicating a law firm’s charging lien for fees against its former client under NRS 18.015. The firm did not serve the statutory notices required to perfect its lien until the case was over. Under NRS 18.015(3), a charging lien only attaches to a “verdict, judgment or decree entered and to . . . money or property which is recovered on account of the suit or other action, from the time of service of the notices required by this section.” (Emphasis added.) Since the decree became final months before the lien was perfected—and…