This guide covers the law of attorney fees from the engagement letter through collection and dispute resolution. It works through the reasonableness requirement and why client consent does not satisfy it, the four fee structures and the drafting each requires, billing practices that survive review, the lodestar framework and the fee-shifting statutes, the interaction between contract fees and court awards, offers of judgment and fee waivers, liens and collection, quantum meruit after discharge, fee splitting, trust accounting, and fee dispute resolution. Each part states the rule, identifies the recurring failure, and gives the operational instruction. The organizing principle is that a fee agreement is a contract carrying a continuing fiduciary overlay no consent can remove.