After an attorney left a law firm’s employment, the firm could collect the entire fee in a matter that was settled while the attorney was still working at the firm, the Michigan Court of Appeals has decided.
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Law firm entitled to all fees after attorney departed
Insurance – Entitlement to sanctions for frivolous pleading waived
Plaintiff waived its right to move for sanctions by ignoring the trial court’s order to provide the court and defendant a list of costs and attorney’s fees incurred by defendant’s refusal to arbitrate a matter that admittedly should have been arbitrated.
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Obituary: Michael E. Scharrer, 71
The Frankenmuth attorney was employed by General Motors for 53 years and ran a general practice in Birch Run.
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Divorce lawyers tell Supreme Court why ‘value-added’ fees are allowed
Attorneys should be able to collect value-added fees at the end of a divorce case because the client can always reject them, practitioners told the high court. But the Attorney Grievance Commission maintained they are unethical contingency fees.
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Attorneys tell Supreme Court: ‘Disfavoring’ unpublished opinions is a bad idea
Amending the Michigan Court Rules to “disfavor” using unpublished opinions in appellate briefs will have many unintended — and negative — consequences, lawyers from across the state told the justices at a recent public hearing.
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Professional Responsibility – Client file transfer did not end firm’s legal representation
A law firm’s transfer of client files to another attorney did not end the firm’s legal representation because additional “professional services” were performed and billed after the transfer.
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Obituaries: John H. Bauckham, Ann Kavanaugh Mandt, Howard J. Osborn, Edward E. Schilling
Bauckham helped establish the Michigan Townships Association, Mandt was a registered nurse who handled medical-malpractice cases, Osborn patented the first hang glider, and Schilling was a patent attorney for Dow Chemical.
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GM will reportedly be fined $1 billion for deadly ignition switch
As part of an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York, GM will reportedly be charged with two felonies.
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Attorney not entitled to 1/3 of other lawyer’s million-dollar settlement
A lawyer cannot collect a $135,000 referral fee from a fellow attorney’s $1 million-plus settlement because, while the two practitioners discussed a fee, they never contractually agreed on the exact amount, says a Kent County judge.
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Obituaries: Hon. Hudson E. Deming, Hon. Myrtis McDonald Lowery, Howard J. Osborn, Edward E. Schilling, George Demetrios Spanos
Deming was an Eaton County circuit judge; Lowery was the first woman to sit on the Midland County Probate Court; Osborn patented the first hang glider; Schilling was a patent attorney with Dow Chemical; and Spanos was a partner at Burns and Spanos in Petoskey.
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