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WATERS v. BOURHIS

Docket No. S.F. 24611.

40 Cal.3d 424 (1985)

709 P.2d 469

220 Cal. Rptr. 666

BARBARA WATERS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RAY BOURHIS et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert Jay Katz, Katz & Lapdes and Richard J. Kohlman for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Musick, Peeler & Garrett, James E. Ludlam, Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, David E. Willett, Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, S. Thomas Todd and David M. Harney as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Ray Bourhis, in pro. per., Bourhis, Lawless & Harvey, Victoria J. De Goff, De Goff & Sherman, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, B.K. Wines and Wines, Robinson & Wood for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

KAUS, J.*

In March 1980, plaintiff Barbara Waters filed this action against defendant Ray Bourhis, an attorney who had represented her in an earlier suit against a psychiatrist, contending that the contingency fee which defendant had obtained after settlement of the earlier action exceeded the maximum fee permitted by Business and Professions Code section 6146, a provision of the Medical Injury...

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