Bailey Hunt Jones & Busto, P.A. v. Roland Langen, P.A.

Because (a) the attorney’s fee, which was previously awarded by the trial court to the two law firms representing the plaintiffs in the underlying class action amounting to 25% of the $9,200,000 settlement obtained, was contingent upon the plaintiffs prevailing in the action and was therefore a “contingency fee,” within the meaning of the fee-sharing agreement between the two law firms, and (b) there was substantial, competent evidence adduced below that Hilary Langen, as required by the above fee-sharing agreement, worked on the underlying class action as an associate with the Bailey Hunt…