The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that a Boca Raton attorney waived his claim to $300,000 in legal fees.

Byron G. Petersen, who represented a startup cigarette company, tried to put a charging lien on his former client, Plantation-based Aldar Tobacco Group LLC. He represented Aldar in a lawsuit in 2009 against American Cigarette Co. Inc., a cigarette maker also based in Broward County.

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