Lasker v. Burks

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that, assuming arguendo a judge’s legal views could warrant recusal, .the judge’s expressed views on contingency fees were not so case-specific so as to require his recusal in a case where contingency fees were an issue
• “In ordinary circumstances, trial courts may have no reason to inquire into the terms of the attorney-client contract.”
• “Even when the validity of the fee contract itself has not been challenged by the parties, it is within the court’s inherent power of supervision over the bar to examine the attorney's fee for conformance with the reasonable standard of the Code of Ethics.”

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