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Litigation

Apr. 28, 2015

McDermott fights to preserve fees after 2012 disqualification

Attorneys for McDermott Will & Emery LLP fought to preserve the firm's legal fees at a hearing Friday from a case the firm was disqualified from in 2012. The hearing addresses whether fees are automatically forfeited upon disqualification.


By Joshua Sebold


Daily Journal Staff Writer


REDWOOD CITY - Attorneys for McDermott Will & Emery LLP on Friday fought to preserve
the firm's legal fees garnered from a case the firm was disqualified from in 2012.


The argument focused on an essential question of the attorney-client relationship:
whether fees are automatically forfeited when a firm is disqualified d...

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