Law Firms Seek Unpaid Legal Fees
April 8, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Big Law Docket Scanner: Firms Do Battle Over Unpaid Fees” reports that some law firms use courts to collect unpaid legal fees. Below is a list of large law firms...
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Judge Awards Attorney Fees in ERISA Case
March 2, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “$567,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded in ERISA Case,” reports that a federal judge has awarded $567,000 in attorney fees to a lawyer working on an ERISA case that...
Fee Allocation Dispute in Personal Injury Settlement in Texas
February 16, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Attorney Fee Fight Over Hefty Personal Injury Settlement,” reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge David Horan recently dealt with a fierce dispute over fee sharing among...
A Host of Attorney Fee Issues Arise in the MDL Process
February 9, 2016
A recent NLJ story, “GM Trial Spotlights MLD Flaws” reports that the rift among plaintiffs lawyers that followed last month's stunning collapse of the first trial over General Motors Co.'s...
$350K in Attorney Fees Awarded in Stock Suit
January 15, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “$350K in Attorney Fees Awarded in Stock Suit” reports that a Montgomery County, PA judge has awarded roughly $350,000 to counsel representing a defendant accused of...
Judge Orders Rule-Breaking Attorney to Pay Legal Fees
January 13, 2016
A recent the Legal Intelligencer story, “Judge Orders Rule-Breaking Lawyer to Pay Legal Fees” reports that a federal judge blasted an employment lawyer for filing frivolous lawsuits and ordered...
Settlement Reached in Fee Dispute in Family Trust Case in Florida
November 20, 2015
A recent Daily Business Review story, “Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over Attorney Fees,” reports that Miami attorney Bruce Katzen has reached a confidential settlement with Wells Fargo Bank over...
New Jersey Mulling Attorney Fees for Non-Clients in Legal Mal Cases
November 15, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Justices Mulling Counsel Fees for Non-Clients in Legal Mal Cases” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether attorneys who are found...
NALFA Hosts Successful Program on Attorney Fees & Ethics
September 24, 2015
Today, NALFA hosted its fourth professional development and CLE program on attorney fee and legal billing matters of the year. The 90-minute program, “Attorney Fees & Ethics: It Pays To Be...
Lexis Nexis Publishes NALFA’s Best Practices in Legal Fee Analysis
September 9, 2015
Lexis Nexis, a corporation providing computer assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services, has published NALFA’s Best Practices in Legal Fee Analysis. The...