Lawyer challenging $500,000 judgment for shortchanging client

Robert Parizo with daughters Liza Barron, left, and Ashley Smith, sometime after the 2005 fall that left him paralyzed. He later sued his lawyer over a settlement Parizo was due for a 2010 car crash. Courtesy photo
A Burlington attorney and his law firm are appealing a $500,000 judgment for taking too much of a client’s settlement after a car crash in which the already paralyzed man was severely injured.
A jury found attorney Thomas Nuovo had no written or verbal agreement with Robert Pari