Legal Opinion
Guenard v. Burke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 30, 1982PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
We are presented with a contest between an attorney and his former client. One aspect of the dispute concerns whether the attorney is entitled to any fee as a result of his representation of his client in connection with the modification of a separation agreement which she had entered into with her husband. We conclude that, in the circumstances, the attorney is entitled to receive the fair and reasonable value of his services, even though he purported to enter into an unlawful contingent fee agreement with his client, and that the determination of the amount of his fee is a question that…
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