{"id":742,"date":"2017-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/media-coverage\/whose-referral-fee-is-it-anyway-lawyer-and-former-firm-duke-it-out\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:19:53","slug":"whose-referral-fee-is-it-anyway-lawyer-and-former-firm-duke-it-out","status":"publish","type":"news_posts","link":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/press\/in-the-news\/whose-referral-fee-is-it-anyway-lawyer-and-former-firm-duke-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Referral fee is it Anyway? Lawyer and Former Firm Duke it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> David Silver Quote : <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>You can&#8217;t abandon a client for years and then claim to be entitled to a fee.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Lauderhill lawyer is battling his former bosses in court over a hefty prize: a $1.2 million referral fee for a successful whistleblower case.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, such disputes don\u2019t escalate to legal action \u2014 they\u2019re decided by employment contracts between firms and their employees. But South Florida firm Frank Weinberg &amp; Black made no written agreement with Steven Katz about who would be entitled to referral fees after he left the firm in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, a case Katz had passed along to a Miami health care firm when he was an associate at Frank Weinberg &amp; Black\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybusinessreview.com\/id=1202770831479\">ended in a $145 million settlement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailybusinessreview\/almID\/1202782705121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of the article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1784,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-742","news_posts","type-news_posts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whose Referral fee is it Anyway? 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