Plaintiff seeks to recover a legal fee against defendant-respondent, a pro se litigant, owed as a result of plaintiff's representation of the codefendant in other litigation between the two defendants. Plaintiff alleges that defendants collusively settled the other litigation in order to deprive him of his fee. This claim is at odds with the principle that a client may discharge an attorney at any time with or without cause (see, Matter of Cohen v Grainger,...
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