Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler v. Young

Associate attorney Robert Young (defendant), while employed at Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler (plaintiff), secretly represented additional clients using the firm's resources without disclosure, retaining all resulting fees himself; he also, without informing the firm that a major contingency case had already settled for $650,000, attempted to renegotiate his agreed one-third cut of that fee before resigning when the firm would not meet his new terms. The firm sued for breach of fiduciary duty; the trial court denied the firm's summary judgment motion and granted Young's, and a jury later awarded Young $280,000 on other claims.