FRANCIS J. BERNHARDT III, PC v. Needleman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that withholding of fees from a settlement was properly alleged as conversion
• remanding for assessment of punitive damages for conversion in connection with a fee dispute between lawyers
• remanding for assessment of punitive damages for conversion in connection with a fee dispute between lawyers
• imposing conversion liability on a law firm’s failure to remit settlement proceeds
• as to conversion claim, addressing the limited issue of whether attorneys had a property interest in settlement proceeds
• “Our finding on the conversion issue enables this court to award punitive damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).