A recent Fordham Law Review working paper by Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “A Fiduciary Judge’s Guide To Awarding Fees in Class Actions (pdf),” considers the fiduciary role of judges in awarding...
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Category: Fee Data / Fee Analytics
A recent Law.com story by Mike Scarcella, “Denied a Seal, Nelson Mullins Reveals Rates in Fee Petition in Patent Suit,” reports that, for at least the second time in the span of a year a federal...
Class Counsel Earn $24M in Fees for Clean Coal Investors
February 11, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Morgan Conley, “Attys for Southern Co. ‘Clean Coal’ Investors Get $24M”, reports that a Georgia federal judge approved just over $24 million in fees to attorneys for...
Defense Firms and Clients Can Boast About Attorney Fee Wins
January 25, 2021
A recent Law.com story by Christine Simmons, “Both Law Firms and Clients Can Boast About Fee Wins,” reports that, several organizations have reported that, despite the Am Law 200’s worst fears,...
Defense Rates Expected to Rise at Lower Pace in 2021
January 15, 2021
A recent Legal Intelligencer story by Andrew Maloney, “Rate Pressure and Rising Expenses Are Expected to Challenger Firms in 2021,” reports that law firms may have weathered the COVID-19...
A recent Law.com article by Nathan Wenzel of SimpleLegal Inc., “5 Cost-Cutting Strategies For Corporate Legal Department,” reports on legal cost measures for corporate legal departments. This...
Contingency Fee Percentages in Megafund Class Actions
August 21, 2020
Quinn Emanuel relies mostly on recent attorney fee scholarship and attorney fee jurisprudence in their recent $185M attorney fee request in the ACA class action. Their fee request reads: In one...
Hourly Rate Growth Hits All-Time High…Why?
August 15, 2020
A recent Law.com story by Patrick Smith, “Overall Demand Down for Big Law, But Rate Growth Hits All-Time High. Why?,” reports that the overall demand for legal services dropped 5.9% from the same...
NALFA Releases 3 Models of Growth for Litigation Hourly Rates
August 10, 2020
NALFA conducts custom hourly rate surveys for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Our hourly rate surveys provide our clients with the most current and accurate hourly...
Will Hourly Rates for Elite Firms Rise More in 2020?
July 31, 2020
A recent American Lawyer story by Samantha Stokes, “Will Billing Rates for Elite Firms Rise More in 2020?” reports that in the midst of a recession, big restructuring law firms such as Kirkland...