KURTZ & PERRY, P.A. v. EMERSON

Docket: Oxf-09-577.

8 A.3d 677 (2010)

2010 ME 107

KURTZ & PERRY, P.A. v. Nancy J. EMERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 26, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephean C. Chute, Esq. (orally), Rumford, ME, for Nancy J. Emerson.

Wendell G. Large, Esq. , Carol I. Eisenberg, Esq. (orally), Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger, Portland, ME, for Alan J. Perry, Esq. and Kurtz & Perry, P.A.

Panel: SAUFLEY, CJ., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and JABAR, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] This appeal presents the question of whether, and to what extent, a decision by a panel of the Fee Arbitration Commission, pursuant to Maine Bar Rule 9, that is adopted as a judgment of the trial court, may serve as a full or partial bar to a legal malpractice counterclaim asserted in the fee collection action.

[¶ 2] Nancy J. Emerson appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Oxford County, Nivison, J.<...

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