Court Opinion

ID: 9667685
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:52:23.30759+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:39.818840
License: Public Domain

Robert W. Hansen, J.
(concurring in part; dissenting in part). The court majority finds the respondent attorney entitled only to a reasonable fee for his services. The *186writer agrees. Expert testimony on reasonableness of fee for the services rendered, given by a state bar association official, set the range of reasonable fee allowable from a minimum $8,000 to a maximum $4,500. The court majority fixes the reasonable fee to be awarded at $4,500. The writer disagrees. The trial court in its opinion held that a reasonable fee here would be $8,500. While stated as a conclusion of law rather than as a finding of fact, the trial court’s setting of $3,500 as a reasonable fee appears to be an appropriate holding. So the writer would set the fee for legal services due respondent from appellant at $3,500, the amount found to be a reasonable fee by the trial court.