A recent NLJ story by Mike Scarcella, “Dentons Wins $7.4M in Fees, Costs Despite Litigation Finance Agreement,” reports that the global law firm Dentons has won more than $7.4 million in legal...
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Archive: 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Celeste Bott, “Ill. State Bar Insurer Off The Hook in Atty Fee Fight,” reports that the Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Co. has no duty to defend a...
A recent Law 360 story by Bill Donahue, “USPTO’s ‘Peculiar Fee Rule Hurts Inventors, IP Attys Say,” reports that a prominent group of intellectual property attorneys is urging the U.S....
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story by PJ D’Annunzio, “Third Circuit Rejects Law Firm’s Bid to Set Aside $15M in Bankruptcy Payouts for Fees,” reports that a federal appeals court has...
Hourly Billing Still King in Corporate Legal Departments
June 25, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Kevin Penton, “Hourly Billing Still King Among In-House Departments,” reports that hourly rates are by far the most common type of fee structure used by corporate legal...
A recent Texas Lawyer story by Angela Morris, “Detailed Evidence Needed to Prove Attorney Fee Award as Sanction High Court Rules,” reports that even when a litigant is sanctioned for filing a...
A recent Law 360 story by Kevin Penton, “Podhurst Wins Atty Fee Dispute in NFL Concussion MDL,” reports that a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has recommended that Podhurst Orseck receive...
A recent Metropolitan News Enterprise story, “Judge Meiers Misread Retainer Agreement, Failed to Employ Lodestar Method,” reports that an attorney fee award in a case brought under the state’s...
A recent Law 360 story by Nathan Hale, “Wells Fargo Must Face Claim it Inflated Atty Fee Request,” reports that a Florida trial court erred in finding that borrowers could not sue Wells Fargo for...
A recent Law 360 story by John Petrick, “Bernstein Litowitz Seeks $11M in Fees for $45M Waste Deal,” reports that Bernstein Litowitz asked an Illinois federal court to approve $11 million in fees...