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DC holds that flat fees aren't earned before [some] work is done

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As the folks at Hinshaw explain, the DC Court of Appeals (not the DC Circuit) held in In re Mance, 980 A.2d 1196 (D.C. 2009) that, in the future, flat fees must be held in trust until earned and that its unreasonable to consider it earned before work is done.  Check out Hinshaw's analysis.

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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