Law Firms Battle Over Attorney Fees
June 2, 2016
A recent Delaware Law Weekly story, “Two Wilmington Firms’ Battle Over Attorney Fees Rolls on Fees,” reports that a heated fee dispute between two Wilmington law firms will continue to play out...
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Law Firm’s Contingency Fee Upheld on Appeal
May 25, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Erie Law Firm’s Contingency Fee Upheld on Appeal” reports that an Erie law firm's contingency fee award from a settlement it reached with an insurer on...
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Pa. Justices Side With Firm in Fee Dispute,” reports that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled a law firm cannot be held liable for breach of contract...
Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings
April 19, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings” reports that the Texas Supreme Court today issued two rulings that favored parties seeking attorney fees in a...
Fee Allocation Dispute in Personal Injury Settlement in Texas
February 16, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Attorney Fee Fight Over Hefty Personal Injury Settlement,” reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge David Horan recently dealt with a fierce dispute over fee sharing among...
NALFA Hosts Successful Program on Attorney Fees & Ethics
September 24, 2015
Today, NALFA hosted its fourth professional development and CLE program on attorney fee and legal billing matters of the year. The 90-minute program, “Attorney Fees & Ethics: It Pays To Be...
Contingency Fee Allocation Dispute in Deepwater Horizon MDL
August 12, 2015
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Houston Lawyers in Fight Over Contingency Fees,” reports that Houston lawyer Hamilton G. Rucker filed a suit seeking more $3.1 million as his share of...
Great Reviews for NALFA Webinars
June 3, 2015
NALFA is hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. All our webinars are free for NALFA members and NALFA clients. So far this year, NALFA has...
Attorney Fee Trends in MDL: What is "Common?"
May 19, 2015
A recent law firm blog post, “Attorney Fee Trends in Multidistrict Litigation: What is ‘Common?’”, by Alicia M. Raines and Jennifer R. Tudor of Barnes & Thornburg LLP...