Lever v. French

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the continuous representation doctrine tolls the limitations period only during an “ongoing provision of professional services with respect to the contested matter or transaction” and does not apply “to a continuing general relationship between a client and professional”
• contingency fee arrangement enforced in the absence of “incompetence, deception or overreaching” or if “void at the time of the inception”
• “Absent incompetence, deception or overreaching, contingent fee agreements that are not void at the time of inception should be enforced as written.”
• “Absent incompetence, deception or overreaching, contingent fee agreements that are not void at the time of inception should be enforced as written.”
• breach occurs when any fiduciary \acts in his own interests rather than in the best interests of the [beneficiary]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).