Rhode Island Supreme Court Upholds State’s Contingent Fee Contract with Private Counsel
The state attorney general won the right to hire contingent fee counsel — but lost the case on the merits. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island today held that the state attorney general acted properly and within his authority in hiring private counsel to help prosecute a public nuisance case on a contingent fee basis. The court nonetheless imposed conditions: In order to ensure that meaningful decision-making power remains in the hands of the Attorney General, if is our view that, at a bare
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