Michel v. Eighth Judicial District Court

OPINION

This case arose when petitioner, an attorney, deducted his fees from an arbitration award, placed the remaining funds in inter-pleader, naming his client and certain medical service providers holding liens to the award as defendants, and then sought to be discharged from the action. The district court refused the petitioner’s motion for discharge. Petitioner now seeks an extraordinary writ directing the district court to discharge him from the action. Although we decide that an attorney lien takes priority *147over a medical provider lien when an award is insufficient to pay all liens…