A recent Law 360 story by Brian Dowling, “New Era’s Defeated TM Challenger Calls Fee Demand ‘Sinister’,” reports that New Era Cap Co. is making a "bizarrely sinister" request for $164,660 in...
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$9M in Attorney Fees in Ice Cream Settlement
April 29, 2020
A recent Texas Lawyer story by Angela Morris, “Sweet! $9 Million Attorney Fee Slated for Houston Firm That Secured Blue Bell Listeria Settlement,” reports that a three-lawyer Texas firm that put...
Attorney Fees Cut in Defective Toilet Class Settlement
April 27, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Mike Curley, “$12M Atty Fee Slashed in Defective Toilet Settlement,” reports that a Texas federal judge cut a request for $12 million in attorney fees in a settlement...
Judge Won’t Destroy Hourly Rate & Attorney Fee Data
April 22, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Andrew Stricker, “King & Spalding Denied Destruction of Fee Docs in FOIA Case,” reports that a federal judge in Washington, D.C. refused to grant a request from King...
Citing Billing Practices, Judge Slashes Attorney Fees
April 20, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Brian Dowling, “ ‘Excessive’ Robins Kaplan Fee Bid Slashed in Covidien Case,” reports that citing "pervasive shortcomings" in the firm's billing practices, a...
A recent Law 360 story by Hannah Albarazi, “BladeRoom Attys Awarded Bulk of $24.5M Sought in IP Row,” reports that a California federal judge awarded BladeRoom most of the $24.5 million in...
$7.5M in Attorney Fees in $286M Derivative Class Settlement
April 15, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Reenat Sinay, “Glancy Prongay Gets $7.5M in Fees for $286M Deal,” reports that a New York federal judge awarded attorneys at Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP $7.5 million...
California Insurer Fights $6M Attorney Fee Award
April 14, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Cara Salvatore, “Calif. Insurer Fights $21M Jury Verdict, $6m Fee Award,” reports that Cypress Insurance Co. asked a Georgia federal court to hold rare oral arguments on...
GA Supreme Court Expands Rights to Recover Attorney Fees
April 9, 2020
A recent Courtroom View Network story by Arlin Crisco, “Landmark Georgia Supreme Court Decision Expands Rights to Recover Attorney Fees & Costs,” reports that, in a ruling this week that...
Federal Judge: Trying to Seal Hourly Rates is ‘Untoward’
April 7, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Dave Simpson, “King & Spalding’s Bid to Seal Rates in ‘Untoward’, Judge Says,” reports that a D.C. federal judge said that there is something "untoward" about...