March 25, 2010
The dispute over $12 million in attorney fees McGuire Woods claims it is owed for its work as plaintiff’s counsel in the Bar/Bri class action litigation has gone to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
March 18, 2010
An recent NLJ article, “Law Firms Protest Lehman Fee Committee’s Cuts in Legal Bills” reports that three law firms (Milbank Tweed, Jones Day, and Curtis Mallet) filed...
March 16, 2010
Reuters reports that a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that insurer Lloyd's of London must pay claims related to alleged swindler Allen Stanford’s legal defense. The...
Courthouse News Service reports in "Tyson Damages Capped at $5 Million and Fees" that Judge Richard D. Bennett repeatedly expressed concerns about the $3 million plaintiffs attorneys'...
January 27, 2010
Drinker Biddle & Reath has won a hard-fought $1.78 million fee award from a Pennsylvania state court jury in a bet-the-company patent litigation case. A recent article, "Drinker...
January 25, 2010
A recent article, "Chicago Firm Sues Client Over $747,500 in Fees" reports that Chicago-based Freeborn & Peters has sued its former client, Vehicle Safety & Compliance LLC of...
January 19, 2010
A recent article, "Simple Collections Case Balloons, Leading to $ 2.3 Million in Attorney Fees" reports that Massachusetts federal judge Rya Zobel awarded Computer Sales International...
October 26, 2009
In an article in Plaintiff Magazine, Mary Katherine Bedard of Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos in San Francisco explores the issues and principles of attorney fee awards in...
October 24, 2009
In the March 2008 edition of the ABA Journal, Let's Be Reasonable reviews the large body of law and opinion on fee agreements. The article concludes, "Even though ABA Model Rule...
