BARHAM & ARCENEAUX v. KOZAK

No. 2002 CA 2325.

874 So.2d 228 (2004)

BARHAM & ARCENEAUX v. Charles KOZAK and Mull & Mull (a Louisiana Partnership).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 12, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Kingsdorf, Barrios, Kingsdorf & Casteix, L.L.P., New Orleans, for Plaintiff-in-Cross-Claim/Appellee Mull & Mull, A Louisiana Partnership.

Frank Tomeny, III, Jason L. Melancon, Tomeny & Fisher, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-in-Cross-Claim/Appellant Charles Kozak.

Before: PARRO, McDONALD, and CLAIBORNE, JJ.


PARRO, J.

This case involves a fee dispute among multiple attorneys. An attorney appeals from a judgment dividing fees between him and a law firm on a quantum meruit basis pursuant to an oral fee-sharing agreement, and ordering him to pay 80 percent of the court costs. In its answer to the appeal, the law firm seeks modification of the trial court judgment. For the following reasons, we reverse in part, affirm in part, and render.

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