Legal Opinion
Bottone v. DeFreitas
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided March 28, 2006PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrant, J.
This is an action by a discharged attorney to recover legal fees from successor counsel who settled the personal injury case on which the plaintiff attorney had originally been retained.
In February, 2000, Zhaoping Pang (“Pang”) sought legal representation for his wife, Xioaman Wang (“Wang”), who had sustained injuries in a motor vehicle accident. Pang walked into the law office of plaintiff attorney Dennis M. Bottone (“Bot-tone”) and spoke to Fatima Ferreira (“Ferreira”), Bottone’s legal assistant. After Bottone returned from vacation, he sent Wang a contingent fee agreement, which Wang…
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