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KOUROUVACILIS v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES

No. 04-P-1747.

65 Mass. App. Ct. 521 (2006)

DIANE KOUROUVACILIS v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 9, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norma Kerlinsky for Louis Kerlinsky, P.C.

Dawn D. McDonald for Cooley, Shrair, P.C.

Present: Laurence, Kafker, & Trainor, JJ.

LAURENCE, J.

This case involves a novel issue: whether an attorney forfeits his right to his charging lien (under G. L. c. 221, § 50) by virtue of being suspended from the practice of law by the Supreme Judicial Court for unethical conduct in a separate litigation when that misconduct was related to, and arguably caused harm to, his client's interests in the case in which the lien is sought to be enforced. We...

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