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4 Nat'l Center for Prof. Resp. Advance Sheets 1 (1980)

handle is hein.journals/dislwpr4 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 4, Number 1 January, 1980 Case Summaries FEES Respondent was charged with over- reaching, using a curriculum vitae to induce payment of an excessive fee and charging an excessive fee. Respondent contracted with a client to provide repre- sentation as to a single count of criminal battery for $5000, presenting to the client a collage of clippings as to Respondent's achievements. Respondent met one more time with the client before the trial date. One day prior to that date, Respondent informed the client that he would not be in court and that he would send another attorney in his place. The client was not to tell the second attorney the amount of the fee. When the second attorney approached the bench to request a continuance, the com- plainant dropped the charges and the case was dismissed. The client requested a return of $4000 of the fee. Respondent refused to return the fee, refused to submit the dispute to binding arbitration before a local bar committee and eventually offerred to refund $1000. Respondent testified as to his achievements in inter- national and civil rights law and argued that disputes as to fixed fees must be resolved under traditional contract prin- ciples in a court of law. The hearing committee concluded Respondent had charged an excessive fee and recommended a private Editors: Robert S. Wells and Herbert M. Rosenthal; Regional Editors: Daniel Heely, Michael Hoover, Charles W. Kettlewel, Marcia L Proctor, Ronald W. Stovitz John A. Weiss and James R. Wrenn, Jr; ABA Press Production Supervisor Gretta Spier. Published monthly by the National Center for Professional Responsibility and the Standing Committee on Professional Discipline of the American Bar Association. Address all correspondence to Editor, Disciplinary Law and Procedure Advance Sheets, National Center for Profes- sional Responsibility, American Bar Association, 77 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, telephone (312) 621-9255. individual copies $4.00 per Issue; subscription $36.00 per calendar year;, bulk subscriptions: 5-20 subscriptions to one address $25.00 for each subscription per year, 21 or more subscriptions to one address $15.00 for each subscription per year;, microfiche copies Si.00 per issue. Included in subscription to the Disciplinary Law and Procedure Research System. Four weeks' notice required for change of address. Copyright © 1980 National Center for Professional Responsibility and American Bar Association. All rights reserved to copyright center In- cluding rights to reproduce or distribute.

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