In a divided ruling that came about two-and-a-half months after oral arguments in the case, a split Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on a dispute over a contingency fee agreement that sought to impose a financial penalty on a client for switching lawyers.
The justices issued a one-page order Feb. 22 dismissing the appeal in Angino & Rovner v. Jeffrey R. Lessin & Associates as having been improvidently granted. The decision let stand a divided Superior Court ruling that found the agreement at issue to be unenforceable.
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