Lesa C. Williams, et al. v. Renard A. Hirsch, Sr.

This application for an interlocutory appeal concerns a client’s standing to seek a declaratory judgment regarding the amount of fees to be paid to one of the three attorneys who represented  her in a personal injury suit. The trial court dismissed the client’s complaint for lack of standing  but granted the client permission to appeal pursuant to Tenn. R. App. P. 9. We concur with the trial  court that an interlocutory appeal will prevent needless, expensive and protracted litigation. We also conclude that the client has a real interest in the litigation, and we thus reverse the trial court’s order dismissing the client’s complaint.