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Appeals court hears dispute over fee allocation and successor-counsel obligations after $800,000 settlement
Summary
A self-represented litigant and law firms argued May 5 over whether withdrawing counsel and failures to provide a 20‑day post-termination accounting justify reducing attorneys’ fees or remanding to the trial court for factfinding after an $800,000 settlement.
The panel heard a contested appeal May 5 in which Steven Cass, representing himself, sought relief from a Superior Court ruling that awarded a law firm (Torres, Scammon, Hinks & Day — TSHD) $190,006.34 from settlement escrow after multiple counsel changes and a contested fee allocation.
Cass said he was pressured to waive findings and that successor counsel and prior counsel failed to give him a clear, timely accounting as required by Rule 1.5, leaving him unaware of his actual end-of-case financial…
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