A recent Daily Business Review article, “Omnibus Insureds and Their Entitlement to Attorney Fees Under Florida Law,” by Christina M. Himmel, explores the third-party right to attorney fees under...
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Supreme Court Revisits Attorney Fee Standards
September 2, 2016
A recent New York Law Journal article, “Supreme Court Revisits Attorney Fee Standards,” by Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein report on awarding attorney fees in copyright cases. This...
Beastie Boys’ Attorney Fee Award to Be Cut
July 22, 2016
A recent Bloomberg Law story “Beastie Boys’ $845,000 Legal Fee Award Will Be Cut” reports the Beastie Boys will have to settle for less than the $845,000 in legal fees that a court ordered paid...
A recent Law 360 story, “Fla. High Court Nixes Workers’ Comp Law Atty Fee Formula,” reports that the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the prevailing-party attorneys' fees provision...
Awarding Attorney Fees in Arbitration at Issue in Texas
April 20, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Disputed $45.8M Arbitration Award Includes $3.04M in Attorney Fees” reports that an international digital security company won a $45.8 million arbitration award,...
EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees Before SCOTUS
March 28, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Justices Ponder EEOC’s Exposure to Attorney Fees,” reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can be liable for an employer's legal fees if...
Ninth Circuit Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision
March 25, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “9th Cir. Won’t Expand ERISA Attorney Fee Provision,” reports that an employer that used bankruptcy law to avoid paying more than $500,000 to a group of union...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Rejects Advocates’ Bid to Sue SSA to Collect Fees,” reports that a company's attempt to force the Social Security Administration to step in and pay...
D.C. Fee Rulings Could Benefit Plaintiffs’ Lawyers
February 22, 2016
A recent NLJ story, “Two D.C. Judges’ Rulings on Fees Could Mean Boon for Plaintiffs Lawyers,” reports that a pair of federal judges in Washington awarded legal fees last week that went more...
Feds Urge High Court to Preserve USPTO Fee Awards
February 17, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “Feds Urge High Court to Preserve USPTO Attys’ Fee Awards,” reports that the federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a lower court ruling that any...