February 5, 2017
Legal fee analysis is the comprehensive review and analysis of attorney fees and costs by an outside party in a legal matter. Professionals who routinely perform outside legal fee analysis include...
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, by Charles Toutant, “Court: Plaintiff’s Deep Pockets Aren’t Cause to Deny Fee Application,” reports that a New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a...
January 16, 2017
A recent Law 360 story, “3rd Circ. Vacates Fee Award After Unjustified Fourfold Bump,” reports that the Third Circuit vacated a Delaware federal court order last year granting about $1.1 million...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Judge Slashes $10M in Fees Over Firm’s Use of Temporary Associates,” reports that criticizing a plaintiffs firm for hiring temporary associates for routine...
January 2, 2017
NALFA News Blog covers important news on attorney fees and legal billing matters, including state and federal attorney fee jurisprudence throughout the U.S. Here are some of the most consequential...
December 29, 2016
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Settlement Offer Irrelevant to Setting of Attorney Fees,” reports that ta California Court of Appeals reversed an attorney fee award of $72,000 because the...
November 10, 2016
A recent On the Case story, “In Biggest Cases, Class Action Lawyers are Low-Balling Fee Requests,” by Allison Frankel reports on recent fee request and fee awards in class action cases. The...
October 24, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “In Attorneys’ Fees Dispute, Xerox Ordered to Disclose What It Pays Attorneys,” reports that a federal judge recently ordered Xerox to tell the court how much it...
October 20, 2016
A recent article in the DRI’s For the Defense, “Using Regional Fee Scales as Evidence of Reasonable Rates (pdf),” by John E. Zulkey, provides a comprehensive look at the hourly rates of...
October 6, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Kodak Stock-Drop Case Yields $2.4 Attorneys’ Fees Award,” reports that attorneys who represented Eastman Kodak Co. 401(k) plan participants were awarded $2.4...
