One side calls a case going before a state appeal court this week an “ordinary fee dispute,” while the other insists it raises issues about contingency agreements and arbitration that no court has ever addressed.

At the very least, the case involves millions of dollars in attorney fees and a novel agreement based not on the client’s recovery of damages, but on the estimated damages the client might suffer.

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