HOWARD & BOWIE, P.A. v. COLLINS


759 A.2d 707 (2000)

2000 ME 148

HOWARD & BOWIE, P.A. v. Donald and Linda COLLINS v. Howard & Bowie, P.A. Howard & Bowie, P.A. v. Cloutier & Briggs, P.A.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 27, 2000.

Reconsideration Denied September 26, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Bowie, Esq., (orally), Lisa Fitzgibbon Bendetson, Thompson & Bowie, Portland, for plaintiffs.

Philip P. Mancini, Esq., (orally), Cloutier & Briggs, P.A., Rockport, for defendants.

Panel: WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, SAUFLEY, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.


CLIFFORD, J.

[¶ 1] The law firm of Cloutier & Briggs, P.A. appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Lincoln County, Brennan, J.) in favor of the law firm of Howard & Bowie, P.A., determining that Cloutier & Briggs had been unjustly enriched by retaining the entire contingency fee from the proceeds of a settlement reached in a case in which Howard & Bowie had been the original attorneys of record for the plaintiffs, and had...

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