Laura Ellen Lewis v. Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC

Laura Ellen Lewis appeals the district court’s order awarding attorneys’ fees to her former attorney, Alicia Haynes and Haynes’ firm, Haynes & Haynes, P.C. (collectively referred to as “Haynes”), after Haynes terminated their attorney-client relationship and filed a motion for an attorney’s lien on Lewis’ judgment in this employment-discrimination action. For the following reasons, we affirm the district court’s fee award.

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Lewis and Haynes entered into an attorney-client relationship that was codified in a contingency fee agreement, which provided that Haynes would receive forty-five percent…