Ellerby v. Spiezer

How courts have described this case

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• holding contingency fee cases are assets of partnership to be divided in accordance with UPA
• holding attorney’s duty regarding unfinished business is to complete it for partnership, and the attorney could not use that unfinished business for personal gain
• concluding “perfectly proper” for fees to be split among law partners
• stating once fee paid to attorney, not client’s concern how fee distributed among attorney and partners
• stating, under- UPA, because dissolution of partnership was not caused by death of partner and in absence of an agreement discussing compensation for winding up partnership affairs, “partners are not entitled to compensation for working on partnership business after dissolution”
• a party’s failure to plead a claim in his answer waived that claim on review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).