The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to give a second chance at recovering damages for attorney fees to a law firm that was denied breach of contract damages because the lawyer who entered the agreement was not a partner.

The justices granted law firm Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck a petition for leave to file a cross-petition for allowance of appeal nunc pro tunc, in a case where multiple justices acknowledged in their April ruling that precedent had muddied the waters on which arguments Meyer Darragh could make.

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