Ryan v. Butera, Beausang, Cohen & Brennan

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• general nonrefundable retainer of $1 million for only ten weeks of work enforceable when client offered initial, one-time payment as “carrot” to attract counsel with “specific capability” despite client’s history of nonpayment of legal fees
• exercising supervisory power over attorney-client fee arrangements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).