Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP

Whether the rules and laws governing how charging liens are imposed and executed in Federal District Courts should be clarified so as to uniformly apply in all Federal Courts. To establish clarification that charging liens do not apply to any money due a client, but only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance. To provide judicial interpretation of 2006 Code of Virginia 54.1-3932 in order to protect the constitutional rights of citizens provided under the Fourteenth Amendment that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", and that all persons are entitled to "equal protection of the laws". At issue is a) whether a Federal District Court may grant charging liens to attorneys representing a Defendant when the attorneys did not render services to obtain a monetary judgment and where the client acting pro se achieved the distribution of funds over a year after the attorneys withdrew; b) whether a client has the legal right to contest charges of an attorney and be heard in a court of law, prior to judgment awarding payment. Petitioner requests the Court remand case 1: 15-cv00149-LO-TCB to another jurisdiction for Motion by FRCP 60(a)(3), given the Petitioner, as a defendant, was threatened with a prefihing injunction to bar further action.