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Does a Lawyer Owe You Money?

"While trying to find some guidance for my problem with a law firm that is dragging its feet in paying me for patent illustrations, I came across your 2008 article When Lawyers Don't Pay their Bills. It is about an attorney who refused to pay a real estate appraiser hired as an expert witness.

"Just like my situation, there was a written agreement requiring payment by the attorney -- not his client, but the lawyer. Despite that, in your story and what I am facing, was the

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