George v. Gelman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “special or charging lien is an equitable right to have the fees and costs due for services secured out of the judgment or recovery in a particular suit”
• noting that attorneys’ charging liens in Michigan automatically attach to “funds or a money judgment recovered through the attorney’s services”
• discussing how an attorney has two types of common law liens on a client's property when the client fails to pay for services rendered
• “The attorneys’ charging lien creates a lien on a judgment, settlement, or other money recovered as a result of the attorney’s services.”
• “The special or charging lien is an equitable right to have the fees and costs due for services secured out of the judgment or recovery in a particular suit.”
• “The special or charging lien is an equitable right to have the fees and costs due for services secured out of the judgment or recovery in a particular suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).