Lawyers can sue deadbeat clients pro se and still recover legal fees under the offer-of-judgment rule, a New Jersey appeals court has held. Solo attorney Philip Vinick Jr.'s clients had tried to rely on a decision last year that denied frivolous-litigation fees to a law firm that sued its ex-client.
November 03, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Lawyers can sue deadbeat clients pro se and still recover legal fees under the offer-of-judgment rule, a New Jersey appeals court held Monday.
The judges, in Vinick v. Lipka, A-0982-09, affirmed an award of nearly $50,000 in legal fees to Livingston, N.J., solo Philip Vinick Jr. on top of the $76,224 in unpaid fees he recovered at trial.
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