The departing lawyer would be obligated to pay costs incurred by the law firm

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The Michigan case of McCroskey, Feldman, Cochrane & Brock v Waters concerned the proper division of fees between a lawyer who originates a case but departs from a law firm before the case's resolution and the law firm. The firm and the attorney had an employment agreement stipulating such terms, but after the attorney left he found them to be inequitable. The arbitrator found the agreement to be enforceable and the appellate court upheld that judgment.

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Ethics

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The Pennsylvania Appellate Court ruled in Pennsylvania v Ferri that attorney-client privilege cannot be used to shield incriminating physical evidence from a prosecutor. The defendant argued that his one-time counsel and his public defender, each of whom possessed important physical evidence, were possessors of privileged information and should not be allowed to testify against him.

Cases, Column, Testimony, Murder, Confidential communications, Attorney-client privilege, Evidence, Criminal, Criminal evidence

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Ethics

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The Supreme Court of Arkansas recently upheld a sanction against two attorneys for charging an unreasonable fee for services. The court held in the 1991 case of Arens and Alexander v Committee on Professional Conduct that since the firm in question did not perform many of the services it billed for, its fee was indeed unreasonable.

Economic aspects, Legal ethics

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