SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs in a personal injury case and their successor attorney appeal from a judgment awarding a forty percent contingency fee to their initial lawyer. We reverse.
It is apparent that the appellee was fired well prior to any "recovery" for the personal injury action — which was the basis of the contingency fee agreement — and that it was the new lawyer who effected the payment of the policy limits by the tortfeasors...
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