CBOE Wins $6M Attorney Fee Award
April 4, 2016
A recent NLJ story, “$6M in Attorney Fees Awarded to Chicago Board Options Exchange” reports that Fish & Richardson attorneys already helped Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc. beat back a...
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Texas Supreme Court Asked to Undo $3M Fee Award
March 31, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Jenner & Block $3M Fee Award Appeal Could Change Arbitration Law” reports that a former patent client is taking its $3 million attorney fee fight against Jenner...
Plaintiffs Ask SCOTUS to Hear NCAA Fee Dispute
March 30, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “NCAA’s Legal Debt Reduced to $40.7 Million” reports that lawyers for the Ed O'Bannon plaintiffs on asked the Supreme Court to hear their antitrust case against...
A recent Albuquerque Journal story, “$1 Billion Settlement Between Feds and Tribes Approved,” reports that a judge has approved a nearly $1 billion settlement between the Obama administration and...
EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees Before SCOTUS
March 28, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Justices Ponder EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees,” reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can be liable for an employer's legal fees if...
Ninth Circuit Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision
March 25, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “9th Cir. Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision,” reports that an employer that used bankruptcy law to avoid paying more than $500,000 to a group of union...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Denies En Banc Review in Fee Award Fight,” reports that a civil rights attorney fighting a 95 percent reduction in his fee award failed to convince a...
$5.3M Fee Award in Libor-Rigging Action
March 21, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “Robbins Geller Gets $5.3M Fee Award in Libor-Rigging Suit,” reports that a New York federal judge approved nearly $5.3 million in fees and expenses for Robbins Geller...
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Will SCOTUS Review High Counsel Fees in Low-Value Cases?,” reports that the proper method for determining attorneys' fees for class counsel in low-value consumer...
Article: Attorney Fees in MDL Cases Lack Case Law
March 14, 2016
A recent NLJ article, “The Wild West of Fee Fights” reports that fee fights among plaintiffs attorneys in multidistrict litigation have forced more federal judges in recent cases to wade into the...