An attorney has failed to show a link between his inability to collect from ex-clients $768,000 in unpaid legal fees and a separate suit filed by three law firms on behalf of those clients. As a result, he cannot claim the amount of the judgment as damages in a Dragonetti Act suit against those firms, a Philadelphia judge has found.
In Harris v. Stark & Stark, according to court documents, plaintiff Douglas T. Harris, a Philadelphia attorney, filed and won a breach of contract suit against the owners of Philadelphia Waterfront Partners and Philadelphia Waterfront Development—Charles Kamps, Patrick Hanley and Scott Blow—seeking payment for work he performed related to the sale of substantial interests in PWP and PWD to developer Joseph Logue.
