United States Fourth Circuit

Where one law firm assists another law firm in contingency fee litigation on the express condition of sharing in the contingency fee award, silence from the party benefiting from the bargain constitutes acceptance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Decided 08/24/2001
• Published 08/24/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Martin Stanley Himeless, Jr., Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor & Better, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellants. William J. Brennan, III, Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan, Princeton, NJ;  Harley Thomas Howell, Howell & Gately, Baltimore, MD, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Michel F. Baumeister, Dorothea M. Capone, Baumeister & Samuels, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellants.  William F. Gately, Howell & Gately, Baltimore, MD, for Appellee.