State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Moss

WILLIAMS, Justice:

Involved here is the matter of the extent to which respondent attorney should be disciplined for having charged a clearly excessive attorney’s fee.

Respondent, an attorney licensed to practice law in this jurisdiction, accepted employment from the executor nominated in a decedent’s will, to represent the estate of that testator in securing admission of the will to probate and conducting a summary administration of the estate, under circumstances of decedent’s executor and legatees not being able to advise the attorney as to whether decedent left any property in his estate, or…