By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//September 1, 2011//
Contracts
Legal services; anticipatory breach
A law firm appeals a judgment requiring the firm to return $2,000 in fees paid to the firm by an individual under a special retainer agreement that defined the scope of legal work to be performed. The circuit court found that the law firm anticipatorily breached an attorney-client contract by abandoning, virtually on the eve of promised performance, a specific task that it promised to perform, on the asserted grounds that the attorney
handling the matter was too busy with other work. On appeal, the law firm references two legal arguments, but does not develop either one sufficiently to allow this court to resolve them fairly on appeal. Therefore, the judgment is affirmed. This opinion will not be published.
2011AP805 Augsburger v. Kammer & Greiber SC
Dist IV, Columbia County, Bauer, J., Blanchard, J.
Attorneys: For Appellant: Zales, Nicholas C., Milwaukee; For Respondent: Screnock, Paul S., Adams