Johnson v. Stein

SPAETH, Judge:

This is a fee dispute between two attorneys. Initially, appellant was the plaintiffs’ attorney in a tort case, on a contingent fee. In the court below, he sought an equitable charging lien on the fund recovered by the plaintiffs, asking that that percentage of the fund which represented the contingent fee be apportioned between himself and appellee, whom the plaintiffs had subsequently retained, and who in mid-trial had negotiated a settlement. '

When the plaintiffs retained appellant, appellee was an associate attorney in appellant’s office, and was assigned by appellant to work…