Law Offices of Fred L. Herman, APLC v. Helmer

ROBERT A. CHAISSON, Judge.

|2In this suit on open account for attorney fees, Belinda Helmer appeals from a summary judgment in the amount of $363,059.72 in favor of the Law Offices of Fred L. Herman, APLC, et al. For the following reasons, we affirm that judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Mrs. Helmer employed plaintiffs’ law firm in January of 2006 to handle her late husband’s succession on an hourly fee basis. By the spring of 2007, it appears that Mrs. Helmer was unable to continue paying the hourly fees, therefore the parties confected an alternative payment plan. Attorney Fred Herman…