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SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. GOLDSTONE & SUDALTER

No. 97-1216.

128 F.3d 10 (1997)

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. GOLDSTONE & SUDALTER, P.C., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Hanrahan, with whom Ross D. Ginsberg, Gilman, McLaughlin & Hanrahan, LLP, Boston, MA, were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Allan E. Taylor, with whom Elizabeth C. Sackett, Taylor, Duane, Barton & Gilman, LLP, Boston, MA, were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before STAHL, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case raises issues of Massachusetts law concerning the obligations that attorneys owe clients in their billing practices.

Attorney Daniel Goldstone formed Goldstone & Sudalter, P.C. to purchase the practice of the late Eldon Sudalter, a collection attorney. Goldstone & Sudalter then billed Sears, Roebuck & Co. in excess of one million dollars for past work Goldstone said Attorney Sudalter had performed on Sears's cases...

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