P0188 An agreement to give an attorney a lien on a client's recovery in litigation that has not yet begun gives that lien priority over liens of creditors who received judgments in other actions.
INS CO OF THE WEST v PANGBORN (Lien Priority) 97 CA4 1039 [See: CCP 708.410 etseq; CivC 2897; Roa v Lodi 37 C3 920; Cetenko v UCB 30 C3 528]
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