Lawyer claims $1/2M fee
NZPA Los Angeles Michelle Tricia Marvin’s lawyer says he does not want attorney fees to chew I up Miss Marvin's SUSIO4.OOO award from her former lover, Lee Marvin, so in an epilogue to the love-and-money lawsuit, he is asking the state to pav SUSSOO,OOO for his legal services. Marvin Mitchelson says he will ask Judge Arthur Marshall. of the California Superior Court, who rendered the verdict in the landmark lawsuit to award him and his assistants the sum as fees for seven years of work on the alimony-without-marriage case. “I made new law in this case.” Mr Mitchelson said. “It went to the (California) Supreme Court. Michelle won something and that has enabled thousands of other deprived people to pursue 1 1heir property rights . . . She certainly needed an attorney [to bring the case.” Mr Michelson took the case on contingency and is entitled to one-third of Miss Marvin's award, which the judge granted to provide for her rehabilitation as a career woman following the sixyear love affair. He said: “I have a contract with Michelle but 1 will relinquish it if the judge awards proper attorney’s fees.” Mr Mitchelson said he would file the motion for payment this week.
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Press, 23 April 1979, Page 8
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