Strobehn v. Mason

ALOKAHUJA, Judge.

In 2007, Respondent Walters Bender Strohbehn & Vaughan, P.C., a Kansas City-based law firm, entered into an agreement with Appellant Elizabeth Mason, a New York attorney, to serve as co-counsel with Mason in a personal-injury case pending in the New York state courts. Mason terminated the arrangement after a mistrial was declared in the New York litigation. She enlisted the assistance of other co-counsel, and ultimately settled the case for a substantial sum before the jury returned a verdict at a second trial. Walters Bender asserted an attorneys-fee lien on the settlement…