Woralak Kalyawongsa Udo Liell, Philip P. Durand E. Michael Morris, Attorneys-Appellees v. Margaret Jean Moffett

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• holding that “attorneys’ fee arrangements are contracts under state law,” although federal courts have an interest in “fee disputes that are related to the main action”
• noting that contingent-fee contracts “are especially deserving of judicial supervision”
• where plaintiff contested reasonableness of defendant attorney's fees, plaintiff waived attorney-client privilege as to communications with another attorney who simultaneously represented plaintiff in same transaction
• “Resolution of related fee disputes is often required to provide a full and fair resolution of the litigation.”
• “[T]he federal court’s interest in fully and fairly resolving the controversies before it requires courts to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over fee disputes that are related to the main action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).