State v. Guilfoil

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a charging lien attaches to the fruits of an attorney’s labor, whether those fruits are real property, assets, or money recovered on behalf of the attorney’s clients
• New Mexico’s recognition of the common law principle of attorneys’ retaining and charging liens
• “One who has been dilatory, and has permitted the client to collect the judgment, without objection or protest, or seeking aid from the court, cannot invoke the aid of a court of equity....”
• “The court, having control of its own process, would not permit the client to have the benefit thereof without paying the attorney, because in equity and good conscience he should compensate the attorney....”
• court proceeded to analyze attorney’s charging lien after trial court sustained demurrer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).