Following settlement of a medical malpractice action for $6.7 million in May 2005, the trial court issued an infant's compromise order directing the defendant therein to pay legal fees (including disbursements) of $1,137,826.41 to the plaintiff's law firm (Samuel & Ott) and $762,173.59 to cocounsel Pegalis & Erickson. This was greater than the $805,767.30 to which Samuel & Ott would have been entitled under the statutory sliding scale. Attorney Samuel justified...
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