LEO: Contingency Fee - Domestic Relations  LE Op. 423

 

Contingency Fee - Domestic Relations.

 

August 14, 1981

 

It is ethically improper for an attorney to enter into an employment

agreement with his client where the attorney's legal fee would be based

upon a percentage of the court-awarded sum awarded to the client as a lump

sum property settlement. [See II: DR:2-105(D) and EC:2-22.]

 

Committee Opinion August 14, 1981

 

CROSS REFERENCES

 

See also LE Op. 667, LE Op. 1229, and LE Op. 1298.