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2003 vol. I bk. 4 3433 (2003)

handle is hein.ssl/ssar0012 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS OF ARKANSAS ACT 1047 AN ACT CONCERNING ATTORNEYS' LIENS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Subtitle AN ACT CONCERNING ATTORNEYS' LIENS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: SECTION 1. Arkansas Code § 16-22-304 is amended to read as follows: 16-22-304. Lien of attorney created. (a)(1) From and after service upon the adverse party of a written notice signed by the client and by the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor represent- ing the client, which notice is to be served by certified mail, a return receipt being required to establish actual delivery of the notice, the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor serving the notice upon the adversary party shall have a lien upon his client's cause of action, claim, or counterclaim, which attaches to any settlement, verdict, report, decision, judgment, or final order in his client's favor, and the proceeds thereof in whosoever's hands they may come. (2) The lien cannot be defeated and impaired by any subsequent negotiation or compromise by any parties litigant. (3) However, the lien shall apply only to the cause or causes of action specifically enumerated in the notice. (b) In the event that the notice is not served upon the adverse party by an attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor representing his client, the same lien creat- ed in this section shall attach in favor of the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor from and after the Additions are indicated by underline; deletions by strikeout Act 1047 3433

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