Nevada State Bar

Court Case in Nevada

Achrem v. Expressway Plaza Ltd. Partneship, 112 NV 737, 937 P.2d 447 (1996)
Cited in : Balish v. Farnham, 92 Nev. 133, 546 P.2d 1297(1976)

” When a client assigns rights to the proceeds of a case or tort action to a
creditor, those proceeds no longer belong to the client. Accordingly, the
attorney is not obligated to pay those funds to his client. Even, if a
conflict had existed between the client’s interest and the third party
assignees interest, the attorney should have deposited the settlement
proceeds in a trust fund account and requested a court to direct the fund’s
distribution.”

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