Attorney Grievance v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that parties can provide by the terms of the contract that a breaching party is entitled to damages
• in quantum meruit case, court declined to deprive plaintiff of all earnings during employment despite bad faith material breach of employment contract
• relevant clause used the word “shall” and used other language that made remedy exclusive in nature
• disloyal employee did not have to forfeit over 75% of his compensation due to his disloyal conduct which was found to be a “practically harmless” act and where the employee’s services were “wholly faithful and outstandingly successful.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).