A recent Law 360 story, “Fla. Firm Fights For Cut of Fee From $12M Insurance Award,” reports that Rosenbaum Mollengarden PLLC argued for a cut of the fee award from a $12 million insurance...
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NALFA Hosts Successful CLE on Attorney Fee Ethics
July 29, 2016
NALFA hosted the nation’s largest multi-state CLE program on attorney fees ethics, "Attorney Fees & Ethics: It Pays To Be Reasonable" on July 28, 2016. A panel of some of the nation's top...
A recent Law 360 article, “Atty Who Quit Before $27M BofA Verdict Still Get Fees” reports that a Massachusetts attorney with a contingency agreement should get fees after representing a car...
The Ethical Rules of Attorney Fee Sharing
July 25, 2016
A recent ABA Journal article “Sharing Fees with a Lawyer Outside the Firm is OK as Long as Certain Rules are Followed” by David Hudson report on the ethical rules of attorney fee sharing. The...
Beastie Boys’ Attorney Fee Award to Be Cut
July 22, 2016
A recent Bloomberg Law story “Beastie Boys’ $845,000 Legal Fee Award Will Be Cut” reports the Beastie Boys will have to settle for less than the $845,000 in legal fees that a court ordered paid...
Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Can’t Recoup Legal Fees
July 21, 2016
A recent Reuters story “Ex-Goldman Programmer Cannot Recoup From Bank-Judge” reports that a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programmer who has spent seven years and incurred more than $8 million...
Largest Attorney Fee Awards in U.S. History
July 20, 2016
NALFA tracks attorney fee requests and attorney fee awards from across the U.S. Here are some of the largest common benefit class action attorney fee awards to date in U.S....
Taco Bell Workers Lose Big Portion of $7.3M Fee Request
July 19, 2016
A recent Law 360 story “Taco Bell Workers Win Fraction of ‘Inflated’ $7.3M Fee Bid,” reports that a California federal judge on gutted a $7.3 million attorneys’ fees bid from Taco Bell...
New Record for Bankruptcy Fees: $2 Billion
July 18, 2016
A recent Corporate Counsel story “New All-Time Record for Legal Fees,” that, five years ago, Nortel was the pride of the bankruptcy bar because its IP auction surpassed expectations many times...
$115M Fee Request Dispute in Chinese Drywall MDL
July 14, 2016
A recent Reuters’ On the Case story “Fee Fight Blights $1.3 Billion Chinese Drywall Case,” by Alison Frankel reports that, after seven years of wrestling with scores of defendants, many of them...