A recent Law 360 story by Jack Karp, “Quinn Emanuel, Insurers Spar in $185M Fee Fight,” reports that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP balked at what it called insurers' "incendiary"...
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Seventh Circuit Rules Reduced Attorney Fees in FLSA Case
October 19, 2022
A recent Indiana Lawyer story by Marilyn Odendahl, “7th Circuit Rules Victory Merits Reduced Attorney Fees” reports that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a reduction in attorney fees...
Philadelphia Bar Clarifies Advancement of Attorney Fees
August 24, 2022
A recent Law 360 story by James Boyle, “Philly, Pa. Bar Clarify How Attys Can Handle Advance Fees” reports that Pennsylvania attorneys can deposit advance fees into their operating accounts as...
A recent Law 360 article by Joshua Wurtzel, “A Lawyer’s Guide To Collecting Fees From Nonpaying Clients,” reports on collecting unpaid fees. This article was posted with permission. The...
Every year, NALFA conducts an hourly rate survey of civil litigation in the U.S. Today, NALFA released the results from its 2021 hourly rate survey. The survey results, published in The 2021...
Client Drops Attorney Fee Dispute Against Law Firm
May 16, 2022
A recent Law 360 story by Caroline Simson, “Taiwanese Co. Says It Won’t Arbitrate Fisch Sigler Fee Dispute” reports that a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphone camera lenses is pressing a DC...
Hagens Berman $31M Fee Objection Heads to Ninth Circuit
April 19, 2022
A recent Law 360 story by Dorothy Atkins, “Hagens Berman Must Forfeit $31M Fee Win, 9th Circuit Told” reports that an objector's counsel urged the Ninth Circuit to force Hagens Berman Sobol...
Brown Rudnick Accused of $22M in Overbilling
February 25, 2022
A recent Reuters story by David Thomas, “Ex-Client Wans $22 mln From Brown Rudnick, Saying Lawyers Overbilled” reports that an Austrian multinational construction company went on the offensive in...
Hagens Berman Defends $31M Fee Award Before Fifth Circuit
February 16, 2022
A recent Law 360 story by Emma Cueto, “Hagen Berman Defends $31M Fee Award at 9th Circ.” reports that Hagens Berman told the Ninth Circuit that its fee award from a $205 million settlement in a...
First Circuit Affirms Sanctions in Long-Running Fee Dispute
February 10, 2022
A recent Law 360 story by Hailey Konnath, “1st Circ. Backs Sanctions Against Lieff Cabraser in Fee Tiff,” reports that the First Circuit left intact a Massachusetts federal judge's sanctions...