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Common Legal Questions in Nevada
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Case Law Cited in Nevada
1 court decision cited across these pages. These are provided as legal background, not as advice about any particular case.
Leventhal v. Black & LoBello, 129 Nev. 472, 305 P.3d 907 (2013)
An attorney's charging lien under NRS 18.015 is not self-executing against whatever the client ends up with. It attaches only from the time the statutory notices are served, and only to an affirmative recovery of money or property obtained in the underlying matter. The Nevada Supreme Court reversed a judgment enforcing a firm's charging lien where the firm did not make even a colorable attempt to perfect the lien until eight months after the property settlement had already taken place, and where the other asserted benefit (retained child-custody rights) was not a tangible recovery to which a lien could attach. The firm remained free to pursue its fees by other means, but not through the untimely charging lien.
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