A recent Thomson Reuters story, “MF Global Trustees Seek Higher Leash on Corzine’s Legal Fees,” reports that lawyers for defunct brokerage MF Global asked U.S. Bankruptcy judge to...
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A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Lack of Specificity Sinks Fee Award,” reports that the Texas Supreme Court has struck down an attorney fee award because lawyers didn’t tell the trial...
A recent Legal Times story, “Animal Rights Group Oppose $25M Fee Request in Circus Litigation,” reports that lawyers for animal rights group that unsuccessfully sued the producer of the...
A recent NLJ story, “Plaintiffs Reduce Fee Demand in Prius Litigation,” reports that five plaintiffs’ law firms that originally sought $4.7 million in attorney fees in a class action...
Nokia Corp. and its lawyers at Alston & Bird are seeking compensation of roughly $1.2 million from Quinn Emanuel for the lapse that resulted in confidential terms of an Apple-Nokia licensing deal...
Fee Award Tossed Over Billing Records
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...
Samsung Challenges Apple's $15.7M Fee Request
February 20, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Samsung Fights Apple’s $15.7 Million Fee Request,” reports that Apple won’t get to cap off the first round of its patent battle with Samsung with...
Billing Records Needed in Naked Juice Settlement
December 17, 2013
The fate of a $9 million class action settlement involving Naked Juice products rests on whether or not lawyers representing the plaintiffs can prove how many hours they spent working on the case....
Ninth Circuit Approves Fee Award Greater Than Damages
December 16, 2013
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has rejected the United Parcel Service’s challenge to a nearly $700,000 attorney fee award in a gender discrimination case that resulted in a jury verdict of just...
Patton Boggs Issues Flurry of Suits Over Unpaid Legal Fees
December 4, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Patton Boggs Issues Flurry of Fee Suits,” reports that Patton Boggs is putting a tighter on clients to pay their legal bills on time as the firm continues cost-cutting...