Practice Areas

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Our network of qualified fee experts are retained by some of the nation’s top law firms and insurance carriers to provide expert reports, affidavits, and opinions on the reasonableness of attorney fees in high-stakes attorney fee disputes.  Our fee experts are retained in 4 key practice areas:

 

 

 

Practice Areas:

 

Court Awarded Attorney Fees

Attorney fee shifting provisions are becoming more common in state and federal statutes as well as contracts.  Our fee experts work with both prevailing and non-prevailing parties.  Our fee experts provide legal fee analysis so prevailing parties can recover fees due them and non-prevailing parties can pay only reasonable attorney fees.  Our fee experts are retained to support or challenge attorney fee applications in state and federal courts.

 

Insurance Coverage Defense Fees

Attorney fee disputes often arise out of the insurance coverage tripartite relationship.  Our fee experts work with both policyholder selected law firms and insurance carriers.  Our fee experts are retained to defend law firm billing practices and hired by insurers to determine unreasonable and unnecessary defense fees and costs.

 

Attorney Fee Litigation

Attorney fee litigation occurs when a former client sues a law firm over disputed legal fees on a previous litigation matter.  The attorney fees at stake usually are millions of dollars.  These types of cases are adjudicated at trial or in arbitration.  Our attorney fee experts are retained to testify for and against law firms and the reasonableness and necessity of their billings practices.

 

Mediate/Arbitrate High-Stakes Attorney Fee Disputes

Attorney fee disputes often result from a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.  Mediation or arbitration is the quickest, simplest, and most cost effective way to resolve high-stakes attorney fee disputes.  Our fee experts are uniquely qualified to resolve large, complex attorney fee disputes through the arbitration or mediation process.