Memorandum re: Constance Baker Motley

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January 25, 1966

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  • Case Files, Bolden v. Mobile Hardbacks and Appendices. Letter to Derfner from Blacksher RE: Attorney's Fees, 1977. 306404ae-cdcd-ef11-8ee9-6045bddb7cb0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/57f63212-671e-411c-945b-748ed45dabde/letter-to-derfner-from-blacksher-re-attorneys-fees. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    CRAWFORD, BLACKSHER, FIGURES & BROWN 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

  

1407 DAVIS AVENUE 

VERNON Z. CRAWFORD MOBILE, ALABAMA 36603 

JAMES U. BLACKSHER 
MICHAEL A. FIGURES TELEPHONE 432-1691 
W. CLINTON BROWN, JR. AREA CODE (205) 
GREGORY B.STEIN 
LARRY T. MENEFEE 
SAMUEL F. IRBY, JR. 

August 10, 1977 

Armand Derfner, Esquire 
P.O. Box 608 
Charleston, S.C. 29402 

Re: Bolden v. City of Mobile; Attorneys' Fee Appeal 
  

Dear Armand: : 

Pursuant to the agreement Ed Still and I made with you by 
telephone a week ago, I am forwarding to you our escrow 
check No. 1840 in the amount of $1000.00 as the retainer, 
we agreed to advance you for representing us in the attorneys 
fee appeal. I am still waiting to hear from you about the 
final terms of our fee arrangement before setting it all out 
in writing. If I don't hear from you beforehand, I will see 
you when I bring the family to Charleston during the week of 
August 15. 

By the way, the most recent CCH supplement contains Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania v. O'Neill, 14 EPD § 7699 (E.D. Pa 1977), 
where attorneys were awarded a one-third bonus because of the 
contingency nature of their Title VII case. 

  

Best regards. 

CRAWFORD, BLACKSHER, FIGURES & BROWN 

Dricrirm a . 
Uli inal Sioned hy 11 Di yo oy 

olilal signed by J.U. Blacksh 

J. U. Blacksher 

JUB: jmd 

Enclosure 

cc: Ed Still w/o enclosure 
Eric Schnapper w/o enclosure

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