TAYLOR THIEMANN & AITKEN v. HAYES

Record No. 911508.

418 S.E.2d 897 (1992)

TAYLOR THIEMANN & AITKEN v. J. Marvin HAYES, Jr.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 5, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Taylor (Ligia Salcedo, Taylor Thiemann & Aitken, Alexandria, on briefs), for appellant.

Lawrence E. Lindeman, Alexandria, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KEENAN, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a retainer agreement between a law firm and its client is unenforceable as a matter of law because the law firm failed to register as a lobbyist pursuant to the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act (Lobbying Act), 2 U.S.C. § 261 et seq., for services it performed on the client's behalf.

In March 1989, Taylor Thiemann and Aitken (Taylor), a law firm, entered into a retainer agreement...

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