{"id":162447,"date":"2026-09-09T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=162447"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:04:45","slug":"appellate-court-rejects-attorneys-bid-for-referral-fee-in-10m-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/09\/appellate-court-rejects-attorneys-bid-for-referral-fee-in-10m-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Court Rejects Attorney’s Bid for Referral Fee in $10M Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge Debra Walker held that the “plain language” of the signed retainer agreement didn’t include an explicit referral agreement between attorneys and was therefore unenforceable.<\/p>\n

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Judge Debra Walker held that the “plain language” of the signed retainer agreement didn’t include an explicit referral agreement between attorneys and was therefore unenforceable.<\/p>\n

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Judge Debra Walker held that the “plain language” of the signed retainer agreement didn’t include an explicit referral agreement between attorneys and was therefore unenforceable. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Debra Walker held that the “plain language” of the signed retainer agreement didn’t include an explicit referral agreement between attorneys and was therefore unenforceable. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162457,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162447\/revisions\/162457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}