PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Contract Arbitration
......Compelling Arbitration
.........Interim Fees
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Error to award interim atty fees to Ds for successful petition to compel—only ••one•• side can prevail in enforcing contingency fee agrmt., and prevailing parties will be known only after claims are decided by an arbitrator.

Trial court had jurisdiction to determine interim fee award re petition to compel arbitration and was in the better position to do so.