KENTUCKY
Cincinnati.com
Written by
Jim Hannah
A Northern Kentucky lawyer and past president of the Kentucky Bar Association has lost her battle to share in the about $18.5 million in fees famed Cincinnati attorney Stan Chesley received from the Diocese of Covington sex-abuse settlement.
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Barbara Bonar, who has a law office in Covington, was not entitled to a portion of the attorney’s fees in the class-action settlement.
An attorney for Chesley, James Gary of Louisville, said he was pleased with the decision but declined further comment.
Bonar sued Chesley, his firm and another lawyer in the firm, Robert Steinberg, five years ago in Boone Circuit Court. She claimed Chesley forced her out of the sex-abuse litigation and refused to pay her for critical work that brought about the class-action settlement. The roughly $84 million settlement was distributed among about 200 people, with the amount each received determined by the severity of the abuse.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.