Lewsader v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• awarding equitable lien where client expressly granted lawyer one-third “of any amount recovered by settlement . . . or by final judgment of any court”
• finding proof that deceased attorney had established an equitable assignment in settlement funds
• “an equitable lien [is] created by language indicating that the attorneys were to look directly to the fund ... for payment.”
• even where a statutory attorney’s lien is unavailable, the trial court may still exercise its inherent equitable powers to award attorney fees
• “the trial court does have the discretion *** to find an equitable lien, but to limit the award”
• equitable lien and quantum meruit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).