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December 30, 2008


Contingency fees in business litigation

When the dust settled, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges had collected $12 million in fees from the settlement of a business dispute while its client got less than that. Philadelphia plaintiff's lawyer Maxwell Kennerly has some questions from a distance about what looks to have been a dysfunctional client-attorney relationship.

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