MAY v. SESSUMS & MASON P.A.

Nos. 96-00025, 96-01683.

700 So.2d 22 (1997)

Carol Ann MAY, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. SESSUMS & MASON, P.A., Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Vega, Jr. and Thomas Wood of Vega, Stanley, Zelman & Hanlon, P.A., Naples, and Robert F. Kohlman of Law Offices of Robert F. Kohlman, Miami, for appellant/cross-appellee.

David A. Townsend and Anita C. Brannon of Townsend & Brannon, Tampa, and Alan C. Sundberg, Sylvia H. Walbolt and Ronald J. Tenpas of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellee/cross-appellant.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant, Carol Ann May (Mrs. May), challenges a final judgment awarding appellee, Sessums & Mason, P.A. (Sessums), $564,500 as an "additional fee" for representing its former client, Mrs. May, in her dissolution of marriage action. Stephen W. Sessums was the partner of Sessums & Mason, P.A. that was retained by Mrs. May to represent her. Sessums cross-appeals the failure of the trial judge to award Sessums the full $1,000,000 in "additional...

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