NJ Court Upends Fee Award, Citing Retainer
July 13, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upends $52K Fee Award, Citing Retainer Dispute,” reports that a $52,000 award in a New Jersey firm’s fee-recovery suit was tossed...
July 13, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upends $52K Fee Award, Citing Retainer Dispute,” reports that a $52,000 award in a New Jersey firm’s fee-recovery suit was tossed...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Judge Issues $4.5M Judgment, but Slashes Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Fees,” reports that plaintiff lawyers won a jury trial and a $4.5 million final judgment for...
June 3, 2015
NALFA is hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. All our webinars are free for NALFA members and NALFA clients. So far this year, NALFA has...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Panel Vacates $200K Attorney Fee for JHO’s Lack of Records,” reports that a nearly $200,000 attorney fee award was vacated by an appellate...
May 18, 2015
A recent New York Law Journal story, “AmEx Agrees to Pay States’ Legal Fees if Appeal Fails,” reports that American Express has agreed to pay 17 states $3.65 million in legal...
March 25, 2015
A recent Columbus Dispatch story, “Ohio Senate OKs Cap on Contingency Fees to Outside Lawyers,” reports that a move to make Ohio the latest to cap what the state can pay outside lawyers in...
A recent study, The 2015 Carlton Fields Jorden Burt Class Action Survey: Best Practices in Reducing Cost and Managing Risk in Class Action Litigation (pdf), reports that across industries, companies...
A recent New York Times story, “Chunk of New Jersey’s Money from Exxon Settlement is to Go to Legal Fees,” reports that New Jersey’s decision to settle a multibillion-dollar...
February 13, 2015
A recent article, “Arbitration Provisions in Fee Agreements,” by Randy Evans and Shari Klevens of McKenna Long in Daily Report write about arbitration provisions in fee agreements. ...
January 22, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court OKs Slash of $94K Fee Application by More Than Half,” reports that even in a fee-shifting case, it’s permissible for a judge evaluating...