Lil Wayne secured a authorized victory in New York as a decide dominated his former legal professional Ron Sweeney isn’t entitled to a $20 million contingency payment.

Lil Wayne walked away with a courtroom win in New York after a decide dominated his ex-attorney Ron Sweeney isn’t entitled to a $20 million lower from the rapper’s previous offers.

The choice, handed down Tuesday by Decide James D’Auguste, ends a drawn-out authorized conflict that started in 2018 when Wayne fired Sweeney and later sued him over what he referred to as an “exorbitant” 10% contingency payment.

That charge, Wayne argued, was double the trade normal for leisure attorneys.

Wayne contends that over the course of their 13-year skilled relationship, he overpaid Sweeney and that no additional compensation is owed.

Sweeney had represented him from 2005 till his firing in 2018, a interval that noticed Wayne’s rise to Hip-Hop royalty.

Sweeney responded together with his personal lawsuit, demanding a multimillion-dollar payout from transactions he claimed to have helped arrange earlier than his termination.

These included a confidential settlement with Money Cash Data and the nine-figure sale of Younger Cash’s grasp recordings to Common Music Group.

However the courtroom wasn’t shopping for it.

The decide additionally blocked Sweeney from accessing discovery associated to Wayne’s earnings from these offers, limiting him to solely searching for “affordable charges” that should be supported by proof.

Wayne’s legal professional, Jonathan Davis, praised the result, telling Billboard, “After an nearly seven-year battle in a number of courts in New York and California, attorneys can relaxation a bit simpler. The rule of legislation nonetheless issues and will probably be utilized faithfully by courts.”

The authorized battle provides to Wayne’s lengthy historical past of courtroom fights tied to his music empire.

From 2015 to 2018, he was locked in a $51 million lawsuit towards Money Cash over withheld royalties and delayed album releases.

The ruling arrives as Wayne continues to broaden his enterprise ventures. He just lately bought his Younger Cash catalog to Common for over $100 million.

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