Stokes v. Flanders

STEWART, Justice:

In 1988 Betty Stokes retained Brenda Flanders of the law firm Van Wagoner & Stevens to represent her in pursuing a workers’ compensation claim and an employment discrimination action against her former employer. The Labor Commission (formerly the Industrial Commission) found against Stokes on the compensation claim. See Stokes v. Board of Review, 832 P.2d 56, 60 (Utah Ct.App.1992).

After dismissal of that claim, Stokes petitioned the Commission to order Flanders and Van Wagoner & Stevens, both of whom were defendants below (hereinafter the “firm”), to refund attorney fees she…