Welman v. Parker

GARY W. LYNCH, Presiding Judge.

Attorney Cameron Bunting Parker appeals the trial court’s judgment on an accounting with her former law partners, which included a contingent fee she received from a case that originated with Parker’s former law partnership but was settled after she left that partnership. Parker contends that the trial court erred in concluding that the case remained an asset of her former law firm. She argues that a case belongs to no one other than the client, and clients are free to change their counsel at will. We agree. Because the trial court misdeclared and misapplied the…