SDCL 16-18-21 provides: An attorney and counselor at law has a lien for a general balance of compensation in and for each case upon: (3) Money due his client in the hands of the adverse party or attorney of such party, in an action or proceeding in which the attorney claiming the lien was employed, from, the time of giving notice in writing to such adverse party or attorney of such party, if the money is in the possession or under the control of such attorney, which notice shall state the amount claimed and in general terms for what services[.J (Emphas .2d 53 (Mo.1982) (ruling attorney may proceed to enforce attorney’s lien by motion in the original case or by an independent suit); Fire Protection Resources, Inc. v. Johnson Fire Protection Co., 72 Ohio App.3d 205, 594 N.E.2d 146 (1991) (<HOLDING>); Stubblefield v. General Motors Acceptance
holding appellants issue was rendered moot because appellant was given the opportunity to make a record in support of his motion for new trial and appellate court considered that record in disposing of only issue raised in the motion for new trial holding that a motion to declare and enforce an attorneys lien must be entertained by the court in the action in which the judgment was rendered provided client is given an opportunity to obtain new counsel and there is a final judgment in the case which the claiming attorney helped secure through his services in the litigation holding that the attorneys charging lien may be asserted and enforced in the civil action which gave rise to the lien claim or in an independent action holding that if an attorney is discharged without cause he is entitled to a charging lien for the reasonable value of his services rendered prior to the date of the substitution of counsel where 1 his representation was entirely competent and successful up until his discharge 2 any potential conflict of interest was disclosed and the plaintiff chose to continue to be represented by the attorney and 3 the discharge of the attorney occurred solely because of a fee dispute holding that an attorney could obtain a judgment for attorney fees against his own client in the divorce division of the circuit court of cook county where there was no objection