Pharis & Pharis v. Rayner

CUTRER, Judge.

This case has been remanded by the Supreme Court1 after it reversed the ruling of this court which had affirmed the trial court’s determination that the attorney’s contingent fee contract was void for lack of consent due to an error of fact.2 The Supreme Court held that it was unnecessary to decide whether the contingent fee contract was valid. It concluded that the attorney rendered valuable services but the fee provided in the contingent fee contract would be excessive and unreasonable. The remand is with instructions to “award plaintiff a reasonable fee in light of the…