Committee on Legal Ethics of West Virginia State Bar v. Tatterson

How courts have described this case

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

• “Prior discipline is an aggravating factor in a pending disciplinary proceeding 19 because it calls into question the fitness of the attorney to continue to practice a profession imbued with a public trust.”
• in absence of any real risk in obtaining life insurance proceeds for client, attorney’s purportedly contingent fee which is grossly disproportionate to amount of work required is clearly excessive fee; attorney’s license to practice law annulled in light of prior discipline
• “Courts generally have insisted that a contingent fee be truly contingent. The typically elevated contingent fee reflecting the risk to the attorney of receiving no fee will usually be permitted only if the representation indeed involves a significant degree of risk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).