Skannal v. Jones Odom Davis & Politz, L.L.P.

Lin this dispute over the validity of an attorney-client fee contract, the clients claim that the fee contract obligated them to pay the attorneys hourly fees throughout the course of extensive litigation to recover their family’s property and mineral rights. Despite the clients’ payment of considerable hourly fees over three years during such litigation, the attorneys then elected a one-third contingency fee under the terms of an additional option extended to them in the fee contract. With this suit, the clients assert as a matter of law that the fee arrangement with the attorneys, *503affording…