Prevailing Party Fees Fails "Exacting" Test in NY
July 23, 2010
A recent law.com story, “Prevailing Party’s Bid for Fees Fails ‘Exacting’ Test, N.Y. Court Finds” reports that the prevailing plaintiff in Gotham Partners v. High River...
July 23, 2010
A recent law.com story, “Prevailing Party’s Bid for Fees Fails ‘Exacting’ Test, N.Y. Court Finds” reports that the prevailing plaintiff in Gotham Partners v. High River...
June 28, 2010
On June 24, 2010, NALFA hosted the 2nd Annual L.A. Attorney Fee Conference: “It Pays To Be Reasonable” at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California. The conference featured...
June 22, 2010
A recent BLT Blog story, “Lawyers in D.C. Gun Case Want $3.12 Million in Fees” reports that the lawyers who successfully challenged the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, securing a...
A recent NLJ story, “High Court Lets Government Take Fee Awards for Clients’ Debts” reports that the U.S. Supreme Court, in an unanimous decision, ruled in Astrue v. Ratliff (No....
A recent NLJ article, “Justices Make it Easier for Employees to Win Legal Fees in Disability Cases” reports that in a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that workers suing over...
A recent article in Insurance Journal, “Ohio Supreme Court: Attorney Fees Distinct from Punitive Damages” reports that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that attorney fees are distinct from...
May 18, 2010
A recent NLJ story, “Interim Attorney Fees Awarded in Consumer Fraud Suit Over Mortgage” reports that a New Jersey judge has awarded counsel fees during a pending Consumer Fraud Act...
A recent article, “Lawyer Says He Can’t Estimate Fees in Toyota MDL” reports that Dan Becnel Jr., the first attorney to submit his name for co-lead counsel of the multidistrict...
April 22, 2010
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the most important attorney fees cases in years: Perdue v. Kenny A. (08-970). In a 5-4 majority opinion, the Court overturned a lodestar multiplier...
A court awarded $45,000 in attorney’s fees in an ERISA case in which the claimant recovered just $650. In Tomasko v. Ira H. Weinstock, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that...