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NISBET v. FAUNCE

432 A.2d 779 (1981)

Herbert C. NISBET v. Bernard C. FAUNCE and State of Maine, Board of Overseers of the Bar.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nisbet, MacNichol & Ludwig, Francis M. Jackson, South Portland (orally), for plaintiff.

Sunenblick, Fontaine & Reben, Thomas L. Bohan (orally), M. Elaine Patrick, Howard T. Reben, Portland, for Faunce.

Board of Overseers of the Bar, Michael E. Barr, Augusta (orally), for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN and CARTER, JJ.

GODFREY, Justice.

On May 27, 1980, Nisbet, an attorney, filed in Superior Court a complaint against his client, Bernard Faunce, and the Board of Overseers of the Bar. The first count of that complaint contained the following allegations: A dispute had arisen between Faunce and Nisbet concerning the amount of a legal fee. Faunce had submitted to the Fee Arbitration Commission of the Board of Overseers a petition to submit the dispute to arbitration. Before Nisbet had...

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