Insurer Denies Attorney Fee Coverage
September 22, 2014
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “AmerisourceBergen Denied Attorney Fee Coverage,” reports that AmerisourceBergen is not entitled to have attorney fees incurred from a...
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Jury to Decide if Goldman Sachs Pays Legal Bills
September 12, 2014
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Jury to Decide if Goldman Sachs Pays Ex-Employee's Legal Bill,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed an order...
Unilever Challenges Fee Request in Suave Case
August 15, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Unilever Wants Fees Slashed in Suave Case,” reports that Unilever PLC is asking a judge to slash $2 million from $3.4 million bill for plaintiffs’...
A recent The Recorder story, “Breyer Sticks Named Plaintiff with HP’s Legal Bill in Employment Suit,” reports that a federal judge has ordered a former Hewlett-Packard Co. employee...
Court: Insurers Must Pay MBIA's Legal Costs
July 24, 2014
A recent Business Insurance story, “Insurers Must Pay MBIA’s Legal Costs from Restructuring: Court,” reports that Lloyd’s of London syndicate underwriters, an American...
Fee Entitlement Dispute in Apple-Samsung Litigation
July 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Apple, Samsung Clash Over Attorney Fees,” reports that a U.S. Supreme Court patent decision that had nothing to do with trade dress may have everything to do...
Apple, HP Test New Supreme Court Fee-Shifting Ruling
June 16, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Apple, HP Chase Fees from Serial Patent Plaintiff,” reports that wielding the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on fee-shifting in patent cases,...
In-House Counsel Can Recover Fees in Massachusetts
June 10, 2014
A recent post, “Prevailing Party Can Recover Legal Fees for In-House Lawyer,” by Stan Martin of Duane Morris in Boston, writes about the recent ruling in Holland v. Jachmann, Mass App. Ct....
A recent Bloomberg story, “SOX Act No Bar to Fee Award for Defendants Who Prevailed on State Whistle-Blower Claim,” reports that because the Sarbanes-Oxley Act doesn’t preempt a...
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...