Mitch Grissim & Associates v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Tennessee

OPINION

This appeal involves a suit by an attorney against a former client for attorney fees allegedly due when the client terminated contingency fee contracts. The trial court denied plaintiff-attorney’s motion for partial summary judgment and granted defendant-client’s motion for summary judgment, holding that the attorney was not entitled to recover fees for services provided to the client prior to discharge. Plaintiff has appealed. We reverse and remand.

In 1996, Defendant Blue Cross Blue ' Shield of Tennessee (“BCBST”), a hospital and medical services corporation engaged in the marketing…