A California appellate court has sided with Los Angeles litigation boutique Baker Marquart in vacating an arbitration award a former client won in a fee dispute.

The Second District Court of Appeal on Wednesday knocked out the $105,028 award. The court found the arbitration panel that heard the case improperly relied on arguments that lawyers for former Baker Marquart client James Kantor raised in a brief that was provided to arbitrators, but not the firm.

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