15-19-11. Attorney’s retainer; recovery for services rendered.

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Unless otherwise stipulated, one-half of the fee in any case is a retainer and is due at any time unless the attorney, without sufficient cause, abandons the case before rendering service to that value. In cases where he has rendered such service but cannot render the balance of service due to the act of his client, providential cause, election to office, or removal out of the state, he is entitled to retain such amount or a due proportion thereof if collected, or if not collected, to bring an action to collect it. Where no special contract is made, the attorney may recover for the services actually rendered.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 380; Code 1868, § 441; Code 1873, § 406; Code 1882, § 406; Civil Code 1895, § 4415; Civil Code 1910, § 4953; Code 1933, § 9-611.

Law reviews

For article advocating that payment of attorneys fees be assigned to the losing party, see 18 Ga. B.J. 439 (1956). For article discussing the determination of reasonable attorney’s fees, see 19 Ga. B.J. 201 (1956). For article, ‘‘The Rights of Attorneys and Their Clients in Fee Disputes,’’ see 16 Ga. St. B.J. 150 (1980). For article, ‘‘Trust Account Rules for Georgia Lawyers,’’ see 24 Ga. St. B.J. 22 (1987). For comment on Citizen’s & S. Nat’l Bank v. Orkin, 223 Ga. 385, 156 S.E.2d 86 (1967), see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 398 (1968).

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