A recent Legal Intelligencer story by Zack Needles, “Court: WCJ Has No Authority to Assess Reasonableness of 20% Counsel Fee” reports that a divided Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled that a...
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$49M Fee Request in BofA, Countrywide Class Action
May 12, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Lauren Berg, “Borrowers Seek $49M Atty Fees in BofA, Countrywide Case” reports that, following a recent $250 million settlement that ended a consolidated class action...
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...
$7.5M in Attorney Fees in $286M Derivative Class Settlement
April 15, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Reenat Sinay, “Glancy Prongay Gets $7.5M in Fees for $286M Deal,” reports that a New York federal judge awarded attorneys at Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP $7.5 million...
Law Firms Clash Over Pelvic Mesh Attorney Fees
April 10, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Emma Cueto, “Blake Rome, Andrus Wagstaff Clash Over Pelvic Mesh Fees,” reports that Blank Rome LLP and Andrus Wagstaff PC are bashing each other's attempts to secure an...
A recent Law 360 story by Hailey Konnath, “Attys Score $53M in $240M Wells Fargo Fake Account Deal,” reports that Lieff Cabraser and Saxena White attorneys representing Wells Fargo & Co....
$3.8M in Attorney Fees Sought in Sorin MDL
March 30, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Matthew Santoni, “Anapol Weiss Seeks Much of $3.8M Sorin MDL,” reports that Anapol Weiss is seeking nearly $2 million for helping clients reach a global settlement over...
Law Firms Win Suit Over Pelvic Mesh Attorney Fees
March 27, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Bill Wichert, “NJ, Texas Law Firms Beat Suit Over Pelvic Mesh Atty Fees,” reports that a New Jersey federal judge nixed a proposed class action against Potts Law Firm,...
Ohio Supreme Court Cuts $4M in Fees; Redefines Lodestar
March 26, 2020
A recent Bloomberg Law story by Alex Ebert, “$4M Attorney Fee Award Cut in Half by Ohio High Court,” reports that a nearly $4 million payday for a prevailing group of attorneys was lopped in half...