Supreme Court of California

In the absence of written client consent to an agreement between law firms to divide fees, a law firm that is barred from dividing fees under California Rules of Professional Conduct rule 2-200 may nonetheless recover from the other law firm in quantum meruit for the reasonable value of services it rendered to advance the client's case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2004
• Published 02/23/2004

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Law Offices of Marc Appell, Woodland Hills, Appell & Wolf, Encino, Marc J. Appell, Woodland Hills, and Brent I. Rosenweig for defendants and appellants., Huskinson & Brown, Manhattan Beach, and Clark L. McCutchen, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff and Respondent.,  Werchick & Werchick and Arne Werchick, Truckee, for Arthur Cambers as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Jerome Fishkin, San Francisco, for Attorney Discipline Defense Counsel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.