Tort Reform Lobby Targets Contingency Fees
June 4, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Use of Contingent Fees Challenged in Robo-Signing Case,” reports that the Nevada Supreme Court is expected to take up arguments in a high-profile robo-signing case in...
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A recent Thomson Reuters story, “Judge: Kentucky AG Can Use Contingency Fee Lawyers in Case vs Merck,” reports that U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves ruled, in a 33-page opinion (pdf), that...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lawyers who file claims on behalf of clients alleging injury from a vaccine may recover their legal fees even if the claim is untimely. In Sebelius v. Cloer...
Alabama Passes Law to Regulate, Cap Attorney Fees
May 25, 2013
In Alabama, The Transparency in Private Attorneys Contract Act (TiPAC), seeks to regulate contingency fee contracts and cap attorney fees for private attorneys hired by the state of Alabama. The...
NALFA welcomes John D. O’Connor to the Attorney Fee Practice Group. John O’Connor is the principal of O’Connor & Associates in San Francisco, specializing in attorney fee...
NALFA's 18 Attorney Fee Award Factors
May 2, 2013
NALFA has identified 18 factors in court awarded attorney fees. Several of these fee factors draw from seminal fee jurisprudence cases Goldberger v. Integrated Resources and Johnson v. Georgia...
Class counsel are seeking attorney fees of $720 million and $27 million in expenses in the Visa/MasterCard Merchant Antitrust MDL. The fee request represents 10 percent of the estimated value of...
A recent The American Lawyer story, “With Record Settlement Under Fire, Lawyers in Credit Card Case Ask for $720 Million in Fees,” quoted NALFA as the expert source for...
The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) has launched a new pilot project that focuses on attorney fees in MDLs. Our objective is to work with courts to publish attorney fee award...
DLA Responds to Overbilling Charge
April 1, 2013
DLA Piper has issued a memo (pdf) is response to The New York Times story, “Suit Offers a Peek at the Practice of Inflating a Legal Bill” and in response to the suit, DLA Piper v....