Rose Briscoe, Jonathan Sternberg and William Bird Missouri Cases

Appellants, three law firms and an attorney, appealed the circuit court's judgment allocating attorneys' fees from a settlement in a bad faith case. They contended the court misapplied the law by denying fees absent a contingency contract, failed to find they proved the reasonable value of their services in quantum meruit, and erred in finding one attorney's contract did not extend to the bad faith case. The appellate court affirmed, finding the circuit court properly considered quantum meruit but determined appellants failed to prove the reasonable value of their services, and that the contracts were satisfied by a prior settlement.