A personal injury client’s dissatisfaction with his lawyers wasn’t a sufficient cause to bar them from getting paid for the work they performed before he fired them, the Kentucky Supreme Court held in a decision that became final Sept. 14 (Hughes & Coleman, PLLC v. Chambers, 2017 BL 343698, Ky., No. 2015-SC-000435-DG, 8/24/17).
A contingent fee attorney’s discharge should be deemed “for cause"—so as to preclude recovery for the value of his services—only where the reason for the termination was some sort of culpable conduct on the attorney’s part, Justice Samuel T. Wright III said.
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