A Louisiana appellate court ruled that an injured worker was entitled to a partial refund of the fees he had paid for an attorney to pursue a malpractice action against his former counsel in a workers’ compensation matter.
Case: Lewis v. Jenkins, No. 2020-CA-0333, 04/07/2021, published.
Facts: In December 2014, Nathan Lewis retained Robert Jenkins to represent him in a pending legal malpractice case filed against an attorney who had previously handled a workers’ compensation matter for him.
The malpractice case was based on an alleged failure by the prior attorney to timely...
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