Johnny Depp's Former Attys Can't Enforce Oral Fee Deal

By Daniel Siegal (August 28, 2018, 10:47 PM EDT) -- A California judge on Tuesday granted Johnny Depp's bid to dismiss a claim by his former attorneys at Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman LLP that he breached their oral fee agreement, saying the show business deal is no different from any other attorney contingency fee agreement and thus is voidable since it had not been put in writing....

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