Legal Opinion
Ginberg v. Tauber
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 25, 1996No. 93-CV-1099PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Associate Judge:
This action arises out of a dispute over attorneys’ fees between Louis Ginberg, an attorney, and his former client, Laszlo N. Tauber. Ginberg filed an action against Tau-ber seeking, on a quantum meruit theory, the reasonable value of the services he provided in representing Tauber in a commercial landlord and tenant dispute against the District of Columbia. Although there was no fee agreement between the parties, Ginberg maintained he was entitled to recover the sum of $3,750,000 in attorneys’ fees. The claimed fee amounted to one-third of the judgment, plus accruals,…
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