Wunschel Law Firm, P.C. v. Clabaugh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that contingency fee agreement for defense of unliquidated tort damage claim, based upon percentage of difference between prayer of petition and amount awarded, is void as unreasonable and against public policy
• “A contract which contravenes public policy will not be enforced by the courts”
• “[A] contingent fee contract is unreasonable when it provides for determination of the fee by factors having no logical relationship to the value of services.” (Emphasis added.)
• “A contract which contravenes public policy will not be enforced by the courts.”
• \A contract which contravenes public policy will not be enforced by the courts.... It is not necessary that the contract actually cause the feared evil in a given case; its tendency to have that result is sufficient.\
• contingency fee for defense of defamation action violated public policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).