Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Injury Hotline
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 7, 1994No. 26372-CAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
11 MARVIN, Chief Judge.
In this action instituted by a former client disputing an attorney’s lien for a fee owed under a contingency fee contract, the law firm, a professional law corporation (PLC) doing business under a trade name, appeals a judgment decreeing that the fee contract is unenforceable. The trial court found the contract “worthless from a legal standpoint,” because the contract identifies the PLC only by its trade name, “Injury Hotline,” which is not a legal entity, and not by its corporate name, “Pat Harrington, Attorney & Associates, P.L.C. d/b/a Injury Hotline.”
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