Eileen W. v. Mario A.

How courts have described this case

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• articulating three elements for a common law quantum meruit or unjust enrichment claim
• “[T]he principle of quantum meruit may apply when a client fires counsel before litigation proceeds are generated and a contingent fee collected.”
• focus of unjust enrichment claim is not on what the parties intended, but rather on whether a party has been unjustly enriched
• “In the context of contingent fee matters, the principle of quantum meruit may apply when a client fires counsel before litigation proceeds are generated and a contingent fee can be collected.”
• “[P]redecessor counsel may recover damages in quantum meruit against successor counsel in a contingent fee dispute . . . where the facts demonstrate unjust enrichment . . . which would be unjust to retain without some payment to predecessor counsel.”
• articulating three elements for an unjust enrichment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).