A recent Law 360 story by Bill Donahue, “USPTO’s ‘Peculiar Fee Rule Hurts Inventors, IP Attys Say,” reports that a prominent group of intellectual property attorneys is urging the U.S....
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A recent New Jersey Law Journal story by PJ D’Annunzio, “Third Circuit Rejects Law Firm’s Bid to Set Aside $15M in Bankruptcy Payouts for Fees,” reports that a federal appeals court has...
Hourly Billing Still King in Corporate Legal Departments
June 25, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Kevin Penton, “Hourly Billing Still King Among In-House Departments,” reports that hourly rates are by far the most common type of fee structure used by corporate legal...
A recent Texas Lawyer story by Angela Morris, “Detailed Evidence Needed to Prove Attorney Fee Award as Sanction High Court Rules,” reports that even when a litigant is sanctioned for filing a...
A recent Law 360 story by Kevin Penton, “Podhurst Wins Atty Fee Dispute in NFL Concussion MDL,” reports that a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has recommended that Podhurst Orseck receive...
A recent Metropolitan News Enterprise story, “Judge Meiers Misread Retainer Agreement, Failed to Employ Lodestar Method,” reports that an attorney fee award in a case brought under the state’s...
A recent Law 360 story by Nathan Hale, “Wells Fargo Must Face Claim it Inflated Atty Fee Request,” reports that a Florida trial court erred in finding that borrowers could not sue Wells Fargo for...
A recent Law 360 story by John Petrick, “Bernstein Litowitz Seeks $11M in Fees for $45M Waste Deal,” reports that Bernstein Litowitz asked an Illinois federal court to approve $11 million in fees...
Feds Fight ‘Bad Faith” Fee Award to Supreme Court
June 17, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Suzanne Monyak, “Feds Fight ‘Bad Faith’ Fee Award in High Court No-Fly Suit,” reports that a Stanford-educated Malaysian woman who was mistakenly placed on the...
Insurer Fights $19M Fee Request in Coverage Action
June 14, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Ryan Boysen, “Insurer Fights $19M Atty Fee Bid in Heparin Coverage Suit,” reports that Travelers Property Casualty Co. is pushing back against American Capital Ltd.’s...