A client who wins a legal malpractice case in New Jersey can recover legal fees, but what about a client who defeats a law firm’s fee collection suit just by claiming the lawyers did a bad job?
An Essex County judge said yes, assessing $52,000 in fees and costs against a Union firm. But on Thursday, an appeals court overturned that novel result, finding it overstretched the contours of the fee-shifting doctrine of Saffer v. Willoughby, 143 N.J. 256 (1996).
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