Few would consider $2.44 million and $440,000 in attorney fees in a prisoner’s rights case as a bad haul for a newcomer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Following her first appearance there, Christine Stetson, an associate in Beaumont’s Bernsen Law Firm, bolstered the odds that her clients, family members of a detainee who died in an Orange County, Texas, jail, will win a final judgment of that size.

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