A recent Law 360 story by Brian Dowling, “New Era’s Defeated TM Challenger Calls Fee Demand ‘Sinister’,” reports that New Era Cap Co. is making a "bizarrely sinister" request for $164,660 in...
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Archive: 2020
Wells Fargo Rips Fee Request in Disability Suit
April 30, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Cara Salvatore, “Wells Fargo Rips $1.6M Fee Bid in Disability Suit,” reports that Wells Fargo urged a California federal court not to add $1.6 million in legal fees to a...
$9M in Attorney Fees in Ice Cream Settlement
April 29, 2020
A recent Texas Lawyer story by Angela Morris, “Sweet! $9 Million Attorney Fee Slated for Houston Firm That Secured Blue Bell Listeria Settlement,” reports that a three-lawyer Texas firm that put...
Class Win $73M in Attorney Fees in Milk Price-Fixing Action
April 28, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Khorri Atkinson, “Customers Win $73.3M in Atty Fees for Milk Price-Fixing Row,” reports that an Illinois federal judge has granted $73.3 million in attorney fees to...
Attorney Fees Cut in Defective Toilet Class Settlement
April 27, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Mike Curley, “$12M Atty Fee Slashed in Defective Toilet Settlement,” reports that a Texas federal judge cut a request for $12 million in attorney fees in a settlement...
A recent Legal Intelligencer story by Max Mitchell, “Judge Approves $22M for End-Payer Attorneys in Provigil Litigation,” reports that the federal judge overseeing the Provigil antitrust...
A recent Law 360 story by Aebra Coe, “Clients Are Eager for Discounts As Pandemic Rages On,” reports that more clients are looking for ways to reduce the cost of their outside counsel as the world...
Judge Won’t Destroy Hourly Rate & Attorney Fee Data
April 22, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Andrew Stricker, “King & Spalding Denied Destruction of Fee Docs in FOIA Case,” reports that a federal judge in Washington, D.C. refused to grant a request from King...
Do Outside Billing Guidelines Hurt the Profession?
April 21, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Aebra Coe, “Do Strict Outside Counsel Guidelines Hurt the Profession?,” reports that an American Bar Association presentation offered two opposing perspectives on a...
Citing Billing Practices, Judge Slashes Attorney Fees
April 20, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Brian Dowling, “ ‘Excessive’ Robins Kaplan Fee Bid Slashed in Covidien Case,” reports that citing "pervasive shortcomings" in the firm's billing practices, a...