Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CPRA)
Section 54. Termination of engagement by the client. - The lawyer-client engagement-may be terminated by the client at any time upon loss of trust and confidence. The termination of the engagement shall not relieve the client from full payment of all professional fees due to the lawyer. If the engagement has been reduced to writing, the lawyer shall be entitled to recover from the client the full compensation stipulated, unless found by the court, tribunal or other government agency to be unconscionable or unreasonable under Canon III, Section 41 of the CPRA. For the payment of the compensation, the lawyer shall have a charging lien upon all judgments for the payment of money, and '
executions issued in pursuance of such judgment, rendered in the case where the lawyer's services had been retained by the client.