Legal Opinion
Tran v. Williams
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 9, 2011No. 10-1030PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SAUNDERS, Judge.
11 This is a case of a discharged attorney filing an intervention seeking attorney’s fees earned after the case of the underlying plaintiffs was settled subsequent to her discharge. Over the course of their claim, plaintiffs’ first hired the discharged attorney, then an attorney who eventually could no longer handle their case due to his election to an office that disallowed him to retain their case, and, finally, their current attorney.
The plaintiffs current attorney took proceeds equal to the highest percentage of any of the three attorney’s contingency fee contracts out of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Grasser Contracting Co. v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1927
- Saucier v. Hayes Dairy Products, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
- O'ROURKE v. CairnsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1996
- Scott v. Kemper Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
- Johnson v. First Nat. Bank of ShreveportLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2001
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