SACRAMENTO — A lawsuit filed last week in San Francisco Superior Court is shining light on a topic that most law firms would like to keep under wraps: fee disputes with clients.
Concord-based Discovery Sales Inc. says Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan overcharged the real estate company by at least $745,000 for its work defending former Discovery president Ayman Shahid on federal bank fraud and conspiracy charges. Specifically, the complaint filed on Feb. 19 accuses Quinn Emanuel of violating the terms of a fee agreement by overbilling for partners’ hours, reproduction costs, certain travel expenses and other services between August 2014 and October 2015.
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