Opinion ID: 2162723
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The amount of the fee.

Text: In finding the $3,500 fee greatly excessive the Committee stressed the moderate earning capacity of N., a toolmaker earning about $150 net weekly at the time of respondent's engagement. However the services were substantial, involved considerable professional responsibility and were attended by a successful result. While the Disciplinary Rules enjoin that a lawyer's fee should be reasonable and not excessive, DR 2-106(A), discipline is called for only if the fee charge is so excessive as to evidence an intent to overreach [the] client; Ibid. (D); In re Quinn, 25 N.J. 284 (1957). The Committee's findings in this regard do not express a finding of such intent, and, on the whole case, we do not find the circumstances to warrant discipline on the stated ground.