Palmer & Palmer v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"A contract between attorney and client is like any other contract and the person alleging the existence thereof bears the burden of proving the same. Generally, the right of an attorney to remuneration for services is dependent on contract, expressed or implied, and he cannot recover a fee from a party who neither employed him nor authorized another to do so."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 428 So. 2d 829 - Reynolds, Nelson, Theriot & Stahl v. Chatelain