Legal Opinion
Pitts v. Bailes
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 6, 1991No. 89-722PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNOLL, Judge.
This appeal concerns the allocation of attorney’s fees between two sets of attorneys in a personal injury action who represented the Pitts family under a contingency fee contract.
The law firm of Keaty and Keaty and its individual partners, Robert Keaty and Thomas Keaty (hereafter Keaty & Keaty), appeal the judgment of the trial court which awarded James H. Brown and J. *512Robert Wooley (hereafter Brown & Woo-ley) attorney’s fees of $155,575.17. In making this award the trial court determined that 50% of the attorney’s fee should be awarded to Keaty & Keaty and 50% should be awarded…
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