Federal Savings And Loan Insurance Corporation v. Angell

838 F.2d 395 56 USLW 2481 FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION, a corporate instrumentality of the United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. v. ANGELL, HOLMES & LEA, a law partnership, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, and Van Voorhis & Skaggs, a law partnership, Defendant-Appellee. Nos. 87-1546, 87-1593. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 14, 1987. Decided Feb. 4, 1988. Daniel Johnson, Jr., and Robert L. Eisenbach III, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee. Gerald A. Cohn, Phillips Cohn & Greenberg, Orinda, Cal., for defendant-appellee. James C. Martin, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for defendant-appellee/cross-appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before ANDERSON, NOONAN and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. NOONAN, Circuit Judge: 1 Most clients would probably be startled by the proposition that they could not fire their lawyer; and even lawyers might find the proposition surprising. In any event, it is not the law of California, which holds that a client's…