Attorney Grievance Commission v. Dietz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[inasmuch as the harm to the client as a result of [the attorney’s] violations equaled or exceeded the amount paid to [the attorney], the entire fee became excessive and should be refunded”
• holding that an attorney’s numerous other violations of the MRPC in his representation of a client made it unreasonable for the attorney to retain the fee paid to him, even if the fee agreement was reasonable at the outset of the representation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).