Legal Opinion
Steven R. Perles PC v. Kagy, Anne Marie
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 16, 2007No. 05-7076, 05-7077PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.
KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge.
Like a contentious corporate merger or a sizable family inheritance, a large contingency fee in a successful lawsuit sometimes leads to nasty controversy over who gets what. This case is a fine example.
From 1994 to 1999, recent law school graduate Anne-Marie Kagy worked as an attorney for solo practitioner Steven Perles. Among her other work, Kagy assisted Perles with two wrongful death actions brought by Perles’s clients against the Government of Iran (the Flatow and Eisenfeld cases). Perles’s clients eventually…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Duffy v. DuffyDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2005
- Stansel v. American Security BankDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1988
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3Cited by40 opinions
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