A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge has granted summary judgment to a Philadelphia solo lawyer who claimed a fellow plaintiffs attorney in the city owes him a more than $550,000 referral fee for a personal injury case that settled for $4.5 million in 2008.
In his Dec. 8 opinion, Judge Allan L. Tereshko said defendant Jeffrey Killino owed plaintiff Christopher L. Giddings the referral fee, despite the defendant’s objections that there was no valid contract for payment of the fee, that he should have been dismissed from the case individually and that the client in the underlying matter objected to fee-sharing.
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