Fleischman v. Stanton
Attorney Paul Stanton and his law firm, the Law Offices of Paul Stanton, appeal from the trial court’s judgment denying them relief in their complaint for breach of a fee agreement against their former client, Don Fleischman, and ordering them instead to return to Fleischman several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees that Fleischman paid to Stanton and his firm. Former client Fleischman is satisfied with the trial court’s judgment, but filed a protective cross-appeal in the event the judgment were reversed. We hold the trial court erred (1) in ordering attorney Stanton to disgorge the fees he received from Fleischman and (2) in awarding Fleischman his attorneys’ fees and costs. As for Fleischman’s cross-appeal protectively alleging instructional error and error in the valuation date of real estate that Fleischman recovered while Stanton represented him, we affirm.
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