In Re Marriage of Malec

How courts have described this case

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• because handwritten notes by unknown authors affected only the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility, circuit court’s exclusion of personnel files was improper
• in order to avoid an irrational fee, there must be a correlation between fee and the results obtained in a case
• attorney may not recover on a contingency fee agreement because the interest of preserving a marriage outweighs possible unjust enrichment concerns
• attorney may not recover on a contingency fee agreement because the interest of preserving a marriage outweighs possible unjust enrichment concerns
• the most important factor is that the time charged for must be necessary to handle the matter involved
• “[A]ttorneys are entitled to recover a fee based on what is usually and customarily charged and paid for like services in the court where the services were rendered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).