# State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Weeks

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · July 14, 1998 · 69 O.B.A.J. 2647

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9622487

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Oklahoma, Ex Rel., OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION, Complainant, v. Joseph WEEKS, Respondent; State of Oklahoma, Ex Rel., Oklahoma Bar Association, Complainant, v. Mark Nation, Respondent
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** July 14, 1998
- **Citations:** 69 O.B.A.J. 2647; 969 P.2d 347; 1998 OK 83; 1998 Okla. LEXIS 86; 1998 WL 400121
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Opala
- **Judges:** Kauger, Summers, Lavender, Hargrave, Simms, Hodges, Opala, Wilson, Watt
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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”

## Opinion text

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.

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