The state Superior Court has reversed a $210,000 award a Philadelphia trial judge ordered attorney Donald E. Haviland Jr. to pay his former firm, Kline & Specter, over failure to pay referral fees from cases he took with him when he left the firm in 2006.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the court, in Kline & Specter v. Haviland, led by Senior Judge John L. Musmanno, determined that the firm was aware of the fee arrangement Haviland had with his co-counsel, Adam Levy, and the attempt to reopen arbitration in the matter was too late.
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