Legal Opinion
Walker v. Gribble
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided November 10, 2004No. 03-1380PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
Breaking up is hard to do. Eight years after signing a settlement agreement that broke up their law firm, two lawyers are still fighting over how to divide the proceeds from four potentially lucrative cases they took long ago on a contingency-fee basis. In essence, one of the lawyers claims she violated the Iowa Code of Professional Responsibility for Lawyers when she signed the agreement and for this reason asks us to void it so she can recover a larger share of the proceeds. Because we find the agreement does not run afoul of the Code, we decline to interfere with the…
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