JACKSON v. COCHRAN FIRM

No. B221850.

BETTY JACKSON, as Conservator, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. THE COCHRAN FIRM, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

Filed August 29, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sirkin Law Group and Mina N. Sirkin for Appellant Betty Jackson.

The Cochran Firm and Brian T. Dunn for Respondent.

Hicks, Mims, Kaplan & Burns and Stewart S. Mims for Conservatee Sandra Griffin.


NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

WOODS, J.

INTRODUCTION

In ruling on a conservator's petition for approval of compromise of a pending action to which a disabled person was a party (Prob. Code, § 3601), the trial court determined the law firm representing the conservatee was entitled to its "negotiated" 40 percent contingency fee, and that the conservator's claims of malpractice and breaches of fiduciary duty and alleged ethical...

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