Bandy v. Mt. Diablo Unified School District

Opinion

MOLINARI, P. J.

In these consolidated appeals the question presented is whether an attorney, who" was employed to prosecute personal injury actions under a contingent fee contract and for whom other counsel was substituted while the litigation was pending, is entitled to a lien in a stated amount upon the proceeds of an anticipated recovery by his former client by settlement or judgment. We have concluded that although an attorney employed under a contingent fee contract providing for a lien has a lien upon the anticipated recovery he may not intervene in his former client’s personal…