09/20/2007
Second District Court of Appeal Upholds Quantum Meruit Award of Attorney Fees on Reasonable Hour Basis to Firm Against Former Contingency Fee Client
Mardirossian & Associates, Inc. v. Seth Ersoff, et al., ___Cal.Rptr.3d___, 2007 WL 1732896 (Cal.App. 2 Dist. 2007)
Brief Summary
The court upheld an award of attorney fees based on the amount of hours that the jury determined were spent by the attorneys in multimillion-dollar business litigation in which the attorneys were retained on a contingency basis but then fired by the client who thereafter settled the case almost immediately.
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