California Court of Appeal

In a fee dispute between a law firm and its client, the trial court's grant of a petition to confirm a nonbinding arbitration award in favor of the client is reversed, where the law firm's demand for binding arbitration under the retainer agreement was effective to invoke the parties' arbitration clause without the filing of a superior court action to compel arbitration, and thus prevented the nonbinding award from becoming final.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2012
• Published 02/15/2012

Judges

• Kriegler

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles N. Shephard, Richard P. Petersen