Guenard v. Burke

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• permitting a fee based on the fair value of services despite a specific violation of a court rule forbidding the divorce contingency
• holding question of fair and reasonable compensation one for jury
• refusing to enforce contingent fee contract in divorce proceeding when such an agreement violated the prohibition against contingent fee contracts in such cases
• an attorney's reliance on a fee agreement that violated ethical rules “was, as a matter of law, an unfair or deceptive act or practice”
• reasonable compensation owed to attorney with unenforceable contingent fee agreement is question of fact
• deposition and contrary affidavit both considered in passing on motion for summary judgment

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