Supreme Court of California

Rule 2-200(A)(1) of the California Rules of Professional Conduct is binding on an attorney who failed to comply with the rule's written client consent requirement, under the facts, and precludes him from sharing in the subject fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2002
• Published 11/04/2002

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Werchick & Werchick, Arne Werchick, Truckee;  Bornstein & Bornstein, Jonathan H. Bornstein, San Francisco;  Law Offices of Joel D. Adler and Joel Adler, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Marie M. Moffat, Lawrence C. Yee, San Francisco, and Jay Goldman for State Bar of California as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Steven D. Wasserman, Thomas F. Kopshever, Kirk C. Jenkins, San Francisco;  Law Offices of Philip Edward Kay, Philip Edward Kay, San Francisco, and Lawrence Anthony Organ for Defendant and Respondent.