Clark v. Estate of Elrod

CRENSHAW, Judge.

William E. Clark appeals a final judgment enforcing a charging lien filed by his *417former attorney, H. Vernon Davids, and awarding Davids $57,921.76 in attorney’s fees. Davids represented Clark in a probate proceeding from September 1999 to November 2000 (Stint I), May 2001 to January 2002 (Stint II), and March 2005 to May 2005 (Stint III).1 However, Davids did not seek payment for the entirety of his services for Stint II until 2005, after Clark had received a distribution from the underlying probate case. And, Davids did not seek to be paid for what he argued was the total…