Sagorin v. Sunrise Heating

How courts have described this case

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• holding that quantum-meruit claim does not accrue where lawyer and client entered a contingent-fee contract and contingency does not occur
• holding that quantum-meruit claim does not accrue where lawyer and client entered a contingent-fee contract and contin- gency does not occur
• stating that “[a] court may look to the terms of the underlying contract to help determine appropriate recovery under quantum meruit.”
• affirming that an attorney could not recover fees under quantum meruit where a contingency fee contract provided that the client would not be liable to pay compensation \except from amounts collected\ and no amounts were ever collected
• affirming that an attorney could not recover fees under quantum meruit where a contingency fee contract provided that the client would not be liable to pay compensation “except from amounts collected” and no amounts were ever collected
• stating quantum meruit “is a claim independent of an assertion for damages under the contract”

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