Ferguson v. Camarillo Health Care Dist. CA2/6
Clients are entitled by statute to arbitrate fee disputes, even if the attorney-client agreement does not provide for it. (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6200 et seq.; Schatz v. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP (2009) 45 Cal.4th 557, 565.) Calling it an “unproductive waste of time,” attorney Ralph T. Ferguson did not participate in mandatory arbitration of a fee dispute with his client, Camarillo Health Care District (CHCD). The arbitrators ruled in favor of CHCD.
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