SKANNAL v. JONES ODOM DAVIS & POLITZ, L.L.P.

Nos. 48,016-CW, 48,017-CW.

124 So.3d 500 (2013)

John Barron SKANNAL, Individually, as Testamentary Executor of the Succession of John C. Skannal and as Trustee of the John C. Skannal Trust, and A.C. Skannal, III, Plaintiffs-Applicants v. JONES ODOM DAVIS & POLITZ, L.L.P., Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 14, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stone Pigman Walther Wittman L.L.C., New Orleans, By: Barry W. Ashe , C. Lawrence Orlansky , Nicholas J. Wehlen , Ayres, Warren, Shelton and Williams, LLC, Shreveport, By: Lee H. Ayres , for Plaintiffs/Applicants.

Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea LLC, By: David R. Taggart , Shreveport, Natalie J. Dekaris , New Orleans, Schiff, Scheckman & White, LLP, By: Leslie J. Schiff , for Defendant/Respondent, Jones & Odom, L.L.P.

William F. Kendig, Jr., Shreveport, Third Party Respondent, In Proper Person.

Marshall Carl Rice, Shreveport, Third Party Respondent, In Proper Person.

BROWN, CARAWAY and LOLLEY, JJ.


CARAWAY, J.

In this dispute over the validity of an attorney-client fee contract, the clients claim that the fee contract obligated them to pay the attorneys hourly fees throughout the course of extensive litigation to recover their family's property and mineral rights. Despite the clients' payment of considerable hourly fees over three years during such litigation, the attorneys then elected a one-third contingency fee under the terms of an additional option extended...

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