observing that “[t]hose federal courts which have considered the issue of an attorney’s recovery of both the court awarded statutory fee and the entirety of the contingent fee amount, have disallowed the arrangement as inappropriate and a windfall to the attorney”
How later courts described this case
- observing that “[t]hose federal courts which have considered the issue of an attorney’s recovery of both the court awarded statutory fee and the entirety of the contingent fee amount, have disallowed the arrangement as inappropriate and a windfall to the attorney”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
OPALA, Justice,
dissenting in part:
I would (a) administer public reprimand to respondents Weeks and Nation; (b) order that they pay the costs of this proceeding not later than 90 days after this court’s opinion becomes final; (c) direct that they not be restored to good standing as licensed Oklahoma practitioners until they have made restitution to Mr. Dodoo, their former client, of $20,000 — the amount of their excessive contingent-fee recovery; . and (d) provide that they refund the excess fee recovered not later than 30 days after this opinion becomes final. In sum, I join the separate statement authored by Simms, J.