Dow Chemical Company v. Benton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the attorney-client relationship is one of principal and agent and that neither lawyer nor client should be permitted to select the good features of his contract and reject the bad
• holding that “so long as the existing agency relationship is not terminated, as by the opposite party’s buying out the client’s interest, the attorney must be bound by that election”
• noting that attorney = s and client = s rights are A necessarily dependent upon and inseparably interwoven with the other. @
• stating that an attorney’s interest in a contin gency fee contract becomes independent at the severing of the agency relationship
• emphasizing that the attorney-client relationship is one of principal and agent, the Court rejected the notion that an attorney with a contingent-fee contract would be “akin to a coplaintiff”
• explaining that the attorney-client relationship is one of principal and agent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).