charged Mar Oil $61,000 for all of his services through January 26, 1983; and (c) that for those services, Morrissey had billed and been paid “at an average rate of approximately $120 an hour,” id. at 906. The first finding was supported by Monzon’s testimony, and all three findings were supported by the bills Morrissey submitted to Mar Oil, which stated that they were “[f]or all services” for the stated periods. Though with one of those bills, Morrissey sent a letter stating that the bill was not in fact for all services, he is not entitled to collect additional fees based on his contradiction of the representations he made in the bills themselves, on which he knew Mar Oil would rely. Cf. Shaw v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., 68 N.Y.2d at 177, 507 N.Y.S.2d at 612, 499 N.E.2d at 866 (<HOLDING>); Jacobson v. Sassower, 66 N.Y.2d at 993, 499
holding that ambiguous agreement between attorney and client must be construed in the clients favor recognizing ambiguous terms of plea agreement are construed against government holding that a governments consent to be sued must be construed strictly in favor of the sovereign holding broker and clients agreed to arbitration where newaccount forms signed by clients expressly incorporated separate unsigned client agreement containing arbitration provision even if client agreement was not attached or read by clients because they were presumed to have read newaccount form which placed them on notice of client agreement holding that when an attorney represents multiple clients and a dispute between the attorney and one client later occurs there is a waiver of the privilege but only by the client asserting the liability