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  Lawyer needed to have verbal fee-sharing agreement in writing to enforce his claim: Appeals panel

  By Dan Churney | Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 3:53pm

  An Illinois appeals court has upheld a McHenry County judge’s ruling that a Chicago lawyer is not obliged to give a slice of his $1.4 million legal fee to the suburban lawyer who referred a malpractice case to him, because the referring lawyer didn’t abide by rules requiring he inform the client the fee would be split.

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