ROSENTHAL v. SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL

Nos. 08-CV-1003, 08-CV-1056.

985 A.2d 443 (2009)

Douglas E. ROSENTHAL Constantine Cannon, LLP, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL, LLP, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 24, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary J. Malone and Ankur Kapoor, with whom S. Michael Kayan, Robert L. Begleiter, and Rachel Gilliar were on the brief, for appellants/cross-appellees.

James Hamilton, with whom David I. Ackerman was on the brief, Washington, for appellee/cross-appellant.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.


FARRELL, Senior Judge:

These consolidated appeals present a welter of issues arising from a dispute over the compensation that a law partner was owed by his firm for work done chiefly on behalf of parties claiming damages from the Libyan government for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

Appellant/cross-appellee Douglas E. Rosenthal (hereafter Rosenthal) was awarded more than $3.7 million in compensation by a Superior Court...

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