Rosenthal, Levy & Simon, P.A. v. Scott

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• recognizing the JCC’s authority to determine 2 the quantum meruit fee owed to the law firm that once represented claimant
• conditioning allowance for quantum meruit attorney fee on statute’s failure to provide remedy for discharged attorney’s right to recover payment for services provided under prematurely terminated contingency fee contract
• reversing and remanding denial of quantum ru&ruit charging lien and holding that “where the discharged attorney successfully proves entitlement to a charging lien, the JCC is required to apportion the fee between the discharged attorney and the successor attorney”
• “In cases where the discharged attorney successfully proves entitlement to a charging lien, the JCC is required to apportion the fee between the discharged attorney and the successor attorney.”
• “A charging lien differs in nature from a claim for attorney’s fees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).