Divorce Lawyers who sue clients don’t always win.
Apparently, Glen Lewis used to be the president of the Virginia Bar Association and is also is a divorce superlawyer in the Washington D.C. area.
According to the ABA Journal, Mr. Lewis recently sued a former client whose divorce he handled poorly, according to the client and other experts, for an additional half million dollars in fees.
Mr. Lewis had already received well over a quarter of a million dollars for handling the divorce, but claimed the client, who is also an attorney, owed him half a million more.
The client, according to the ABA and Washington Post, counter-sued for malpractice saying Mr. Lewis did a poor job handling the divorce which, by the way, didn’t even go to trial. (How does a case that doesn’t go to trial amount to nearly a million dollars in fees? That is crazy! Where can I get clients like that? Hey, Terri, if you read this one, kindly inform where I can get my grubby little paws on clients like this. Please.)
In the final analysis, the divorce lawyer lost the case. His client dealt a low blow by bringing on yet another former bar president as his expert witness who basically dismissed Lewis’ claims that his work amounted to over $900K in fees. Bernard DiMuro, the expert former bar president, called the divorce case a “garden variety” case and just bluntly testified that Mr. Lewis wasn’t entitled to the money he sought to get from the client.
Make a long story short, Mr. Lewis and his client settled the case for about $102K. Lewis’ legal team also had to pay $25K in sanctions for failing to comply with pre trial orders.
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