Packard-Bamberger & Co., Inc. v. Collier

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a counsel fee award \will not be reversed except upon a showing of an abuse of discretion.\
• concluding after analysis of the lodestar issue that the trial court's award would not be disturbed because that court was in the best position to weigh the \equities and arguments\ of the parties
• allowing the recovery of attorneys’ fees incurred in the prosecution of an attorney misconduct case based on breach of fiduciary duty principles
• Explaining that if a breach of the duty of loyalty is brought “as an independent tort, a claimant is entitled to recover attorneys’ fees so long as the claimant proves that the attorney’s breach arose from the attorney-client relationship.”
• allowing a prevailing plaintiff to recover attorneys’ fees and costs in an action against an attorney for intentional violation of fiduciary duties
• requiring reduction in fee award due to rejection of substantial portion of plaintiffs claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).