Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Apr. 23, 2016
Bar switches up theories in fee dispute case
The State Bar inexplicably retreated from its winning argument, and made a new argument at the 9th Circuit in a recent case involving a fee dispute.
Samuel C. Bellicini
Email: sam@statebaradvice.com
Samuel is an experienced California ethics and professional responsibility attorney in Marin County, servicing the Bay Area and the entire state of California.
Three years ago, on May 1, 2013, attorney Marilyn Scheer was placed on "involuntary inactive" status by the Review Department of the State Bar Court, based on her failure to pay a fee arbitration award against her for approximately $5,000, owing to a client named Clark. Scheer's petition for review to the California Supreme Court was denied about a month later.
Scheer then filed suit against the State Bar in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging v...
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