A recent Reuters story by Allison Frankel, “4th Circuit: In Fee Awards, Judges Must Consider Risk and Results,” reports on a case involving contingency fee risk in awarding attorney fees. The...
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A recent Law 360 story by Sayna Posses, “TCPA Class Demands Objector Post Bond in $15M Fee Appeal” reports that call recipients leading a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action over...
Jenner Wins Fees in Contingency Agreement
May 23, 2017
A recent the NLJ story by Marcia Coyle, “Skadden Loses a Tax Dispute, and Jenner Wins Fee Fight,” reports that Jenner & Block won fees in a case, Parallel Networks v. Jenner & Block, that...
A recent the Law 360 story by Jess Krochtengel, “Plaintiffs Firms Duel Over Texas Jurisdiction in Fee Fight,” reports that a Rhode Island attorney who served as local counsel for a Texas firm in...
A recent the Above the Law story by Joe Patrice, “State Accidentally Abolishes ‘American Rule’ for Attorney Fees,” reports that Oklahoma has mistakenly abolished the "American Rule" in...
Question: When Is a $3 Million Attorney Fee Award Painful?
April 19, 2017
Answer: When your fee request was $25 million higher. And so it was in In Re: Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, pending in federal court...
A recent Law 360 story by Suevon Lee, “Judge OKs $150M in Fees in Dow, Boeing Nuke Pollution Suit,” reports that counsel for the Colorado residents who achieved a $375 million settlement with Dow...
Five Fundamentals of Collecting Attorney Fees
April 3, 2017
A recent Daily Report article by Randy Evans and Shari Klevens, “5 Fundamentals of Collecting Fees,” addresses attorney fee collection. This article was posted with permission. The article...
NALFA Hosts CLE Program with Sitting Federal Judges
March 24, 2017
Today, NALFA hosted the CLE program “View From the Bench: Awarding Attorney Fees in Federal Litigation”. This program featured a panel of sitting federal judges. This is the third CLE program...
$175M in Attorney Fees in $10B VW Settlement
March 22, 2017
A recent Courthouse News Services story by Nicholas Iovino, “Lawyers Share $175M Payday in VW Settlement,” reports that a federal judge awarded $175 million in attorneys’ fees and costs to...