Plaintiff’s case ended with a verdict.  Now, the attorneys are battling over the legal fees generated.  This McDonald’s Strip Search case reported in the Kentucky Law Review blog ended in a plaintiff’s verdict.  Now the aftermath

"The battle over money in the McDonald’s strip-search case didn’t end with yesterday’s verdict.

Louise Ogborn’s original lawyers, whom she fired, filed a lien on the judgment to make sure they are paid for their work.

But Ogborn has sued those lawyers — William C. Boone Jr. and Steve Yater — for legal malpractice.

The lawyers claim that the suit is nothing more than an effort by Ogborn’s current lead counsel, Ann Oldfather, to avoid sharing fees.

In court papers filed with the legal malpractice suit, Ogborn claims that those two lawyers committed malpractice by making concessions in her case without her knowledge after McDonald’s discovered they had allegedly made an ethics violation by notarizing the affidavits of witnesses after they had signed them.

During the four-week trial, Ogborn also claimed Boone and Yater forced her to submit to interviews with The Courier-Journal and ABC’s "Primetime" that damaged her psychologically and diminished the value of her case. Lawyers outside the case have said that Ogborn lost the opportunity to leverage a large settlement from McDonald’s once the company was exposed to bad publicity.

The malpractice suit was filed in circuit court in Spencer County, where Ogborn lives, but a judge there has ruled it must be pursued in Bullitt County, where it has been refiled and is pending. "