Feinman v. Marks

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the measure of damages in a legal malpractice suit is \the value of the claim lost\
• holding that in the context of a contingency fee agreement for one third of the client’s recovery, “[w]here [an attorney’s] discharge is without cause, the attorney is limited to recovering in quantum meruit the reasonable value of the services rendered”
• object of compensatory damages in legal malpractice action, whether founded on theory of tort or contract, is to make injured client whole
• “Where the discharge is for cause, the attorney has no right to compensation or a retaining lien, notwithstanding a specific retainer agreement[.]”
• “Where the discharge is for cause, the attorney has no right to compensation or a retaining lien, notwithstanding a specific retainer agreement[.]”
• “Where the discharge is for cause, the attorney has no right to compensation or a retaining lien, notwithstanding a specific retainer agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).