When an employer and employee are separately represented by an attorney representing the employee, what is the value of the employee's attorney's services?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Luque, Herrera, 81 Cal.App.4th 558, 96 Cal.Rptr.2d 853 (Cal. App. 2000):
Fremont cites Summers v. Newman (1999) 20 Cal.4th 1021, 1028, for the proposition that "when employer and employee are separately represented, the reasonable value of the employee's attorney's services is determined . . . by reference to the actual benefit that the settlement confers on the attorney's own client, the employee. [Citations.]"
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