Section 8Part 2 — CONTINGENCY FEE AGREEMENTS
Agreements relieving attorney-at-law from liability for negligence void
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A provision in a contingency fee agreement that an attorney-at-law is not liable for negligence or that the attorney-at-law is relieved of any responsibility to which the attorney-at-law would otherwise be subject, is void.
Subsection (1) does not prohibit an attorney-at-law who is employed in a master-servant relationship from being indemnified by the employer of the attorney-at-law for liabilities incurred as a consequence of professional negligence in the course of the employment.