McIntosh v. Mills

Opinion

RUVOLO, J.

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INTRODUCTION

Appellant J. Nicholas McIntosh appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of respondent Robert W. Mills (Mills). The trial court granted Mills’s summary judgment after concluding, as a matter of law, that an alleged 2 agreement to share a legal fee (the fee-sharing agreement) entered into between Mills, a member of the State Bar of California, and McIntosh, a nonattomey, was unenforceable. 3 In reviewing the matter de novo, we agree that the fee-sharing agreement was unenforceable under the doctrine of illegality of contract. Further, we conclude that no…