Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Weeks
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided July 14, 1998No. SCBD 4123, SCBD 4125PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Per curiam
¶ 1 In this appeal from a bar disciplinary proceeding we are asked to decide whether respondents, attorneys for a prevailing plaintiff in a civil rights action, received an unreasonable fee in violation of Rule 1.5(a) of the Oklahoma Rules of Professional Conduct, when they collected both the full amount of the attorney fees received in settlement with the defendants pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and the full amount of the agreed upon contingent fee from the client’s recovery. Rehearing of our previous decision in SCBD 4123 is granted. Our previous opinion is withdrawn and this opinion is…
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