A ruling in a fee fight between two attorneys who worked together for almost 16 years sheds light on what a lawyer’s obligations are when leaving a firm and taking along a contingency-fee case.
A judge held the departing lawyer, Joseph Fritzen, must pay his former employer, Clifford Weininger, almost $70,000 that Fritzen collected in a personal injury case he had originated at the prior firm.
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