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FEDERAL SAV. & LOAN INS. v. ANGELL, HOLMES & LEA

Nos. 87-1546, 87-1593.

838 F.2d 395 (1988)

FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION, a corporate instrumentality of the United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. v. ANGELL, HOLMES & LEA, a law partnership, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, and Van Voorhis & Skaggs, a law partnership, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Johnson, Jr., and Robert L. Eisenbach III, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee.

Gerald A. Cohn, Phillips Cohn & Greenberg, Orinda, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

James C. Martin, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for defendant-appellee/cross-appellant.

Before ANDERSON, NOONAN and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

NOONAN, Circuit Judge:

Most clients would probably be startled by the proposition that they could not fire their lawyer; and even lawyers might find the proposition surprising. In any event, it is not the law of California, which holds that a client's power to discharge an attorney, with or without cause, "is absolute." Fracasse v. Brent, 6 Cal.3d 784, 100 Cal...

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