Spilker v. Hankin

How courts have described this case

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• noting attorney’s strong influence over client after inception of attorney client relationship
• “[f]ee contracts between attorney and client are a subject of special interest and concern to the courts”
• Need for judicial scrutiny and control of attorney-client relationship outweighs policies of res judicata
• fiduciary relationship between attorney and client supports policy of courts examining closely any transaction between them, which policy should be weighed against that supporting doctrine of res judicata
• fiduciary relationship between attorney and client supports policy of courts examining closely any transaction between them, which policy should be weighed against that supporting doctrine of res judicata
• fee contracts entered into long after the attorney-client relationship commenced are always subject to “the close scrutiny of the court, ... [and often are] attended by a presumption of invalidity and overreaching”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).