United States Ninth Circuit

In an action claiming that an attorney and his law firm committed various forms of attorney misconduct and seeking disgorgement of fees paid by plaintiffs, judgment against plaintiffs is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in holding that, even assuming defendants breached the fiduciary duties to their clients imposed by the rules of professional conduct for attorneys, the circumstances of the case did not warrant an equitable award of disgorgement of fees.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2008
• Decided 08/11/2008
• Published 08/11/2008

Judges

• Before:  CARLOS T. BEA and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH M. HOOD, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Gould, Brian J. Waid, Law Offices of Robert B. Gould, Seattle, WA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick N. Rothwell, Davis Rothwell Earle & Xóchihua, Seattle, WA, for the appellees.