July 19, 2016
A recent Law 360 story “Taco Bell Workers Win Fraction of ‘Inflated’ $7.3M Fee Bid,” reports that a California federal judge on gutted a $7.3 million attorneys’ fees bid from Taco Bell...
June 22, 2016
Legal bill auditors are companies who provide quantitative analysis of legal billing entries. Legal bill auditors help to categorize and summarize billing entries. Legal bill auditors are hired by...
June 17, 2016
A recent American Lawyer story, “Sullivan & Cromwell Faces Fee Challenge in Primorsk Bankruptcy,” reports that when Sullivan & Cromwell took on a rare debtor's counsel role earlier this...
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Attorneys’ Fees for ‘Useless Work’ in Chapter 11 Case Cut in Half,” reports that a bankruptcy court cut by 50 percent a firm's requested fees related to nine...
April 15, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Judge Denies $3.18M in Costs in Drywall Antitrust Case” reports that the federal judge presiding over the domestic drywall antitrust litigation has denied...
April 6, 2016
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Judge OKs Fees in Kayak.com Suit but Balks at K&L Gates’ Rates” reports that a federal judge in Camden, NJ has ruled that the operator of travel...
March 4, 2016
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “More In-House Lawyers Are Logging Their Hours. Should You?,” reports that one of the biggest perks of going in-house is saying goodbye to tracking your time. ...
March 2, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “$567,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded in ERISA Case,” reports that a federal judge has awarded $567,000 in attorney fees to a lawyer working on an ERISA case that...
February 26, 2016
A recent ABA Journal story, “Suit Claims Quinn Emanuel Didn’t Comply with Fee Agreement,” reports that a lawsuit filed last week claims Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan overbilled for its...
January 18, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “Lowered Attorney Fees a Fail, 9th Circ. Rules” reports that, calling a federal judge's award of attorneys' fees "a near total failure," the Ninth Circuit Friday...
