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HOILES v. ALIOTO

No. 05-1376.

461 F.3d 1224 (2006)

Timothy C. HOILES, Plaintiff-Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee, v. Joseph M. ALIOTO, Defendant-Counterclaim-Plaintiff-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 5, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Rauchberg, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York (Norman Brownstein, Timothy R. Beyer, Richard P. Barkley, Josephine Sandler, Brownstein Hyatt & Farber, P.C., Denver, Colorado, Ian L. Saffer and Chad King, Townsend & Townsend & Crew, LLP, Denver, Colorado, Scott L. Levin, Fisher, Sweetbaum & Levin, P.C., Denver, Colorado, Elise A. Yablonski, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York, Daniel Rees Shulman, Gray Plaint, Mooty, Motty & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Maxwell M. Blecher, John E. Andrews, Blecher & Collins, P.C., Los Angeles, California, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Counterclaim-Plaintiff-Appellant.

E. Glen Johnson, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Fort Worth, Texas (Bart A. Rue, Frank P. Greenhaw IV, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Fort Worth, Texas, Kenneth B. Siegel, Sherman & Howard, L.L.C., Denver, Colorado, with him on the brief), for Plaintiff-Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee.

Before MURPHY, BALDOCK, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

I. Introduction

This appeal arises out of a contingent fee agreement (the "Fee Agreement") entered into by Plaintiff-Appellee Timothy Hoiles, a resident of Colorado, and Defendant-Appellant Joseph Alioto, an attorney licensed to practice law in California. Hoiles hired Alioto to assist him in selling stock he owned in a private, family-owned media company, Freedom Communications, Inc. ("Freedom"). Approximately two years after the...

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