A plaintiff’s attorney whose only source of payment is a possible statutory fee award faces ethical challenges when the defendant proposes a lump sum settlement that doesn’t provide for an adequate fee recovery. We earlier reviewed a proposal from some academics, which apparently went nowhere with the American Bar Association. Now the California Bar Association has addressed […]
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