Legal Opinion
Butler, Fitzgerald & Potter v. Sequa Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 17, 2001No. 00-7025PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
During the course of protracted litigation, one party discharged the law -firm that had been representing it, and replaced it with two solo practitioners. Pri- or to its discharge, the law firm obtained a $2.9 million charging lien that will be extinguished absent a favorable disposition for its former client. It moved therefore to intervene in the continuing litigation as a matter of right. The district court denied the motion.
This appeal from the denial of that motion raises several thorny issues: whether a discharged lawyer who has a charging lien it believes is in…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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