Miller v. Campbell, Warburton, Fitzsimmons, Smith, Mendel & Pastore

Opinion

PREMO, J.

Defendant Campbell, Warburton, Fitzsimmons, Smith, Mendel & Pastore (Campbell Warburton) is a law firm that had represented plaintiff Reiko Miller in connection with her duties as the executor of her mother’s estate. At the conclusion of that matter, Campbell Warburton requested its attorneys’ fees from the probate court and was awarded all but one category of the fees it sought. The probate court’s major reason for denying that one category of fees was its finding that the fees had been generated by services rendered to Miller personally, not as the executor of the estate.…