Ramona Martinez and Stevens Law Offices v. Mintz Law Firm, LLC and Eric Krajewski, Esq. — Coats, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Coats dissented from the majority's interpretation of the attorney's lien statute. He would have held that the underlying wrongful-death action could not adjudicate the first attorney's lien over that attorney's objection, and that the attorney's failure to invoke the statute by name did not waive his jurisdictional objection. He would have affirmed the court of appeals, vacated the district court's findings and conclusions, and left issues concerning successive contingency-fee agreements to the rulemaking process.