A recent the IndianaLawyer.com story, “Bill Would Allow Recovery of Attorney Fees in All Wrongful Death Actions” reports that a northern Indiana senator has introduced legislation to amend...
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Ninth Circuit Cuts $8.6M Fee Request in Antitrust Case
January 11, 2016
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Best Buy Loses Bid for $8.6 Million Fee Award” reports that Best Buy Co. Inc., a national retailer of consumer electronics products, yesterday failed in its...
Insurers Must Pay Port $2.5M in Attorney Fees
January 8, 2016
A recent the Daily News Online story, “Judge Orders Insurers to Pay Port $2.5M in Attorney Fees” reports that a Cowlitz County, WA judge has ordered a group of insurers to pay the Port of...
Flat Fee Agreement Under Scrutiny in Texas
January 5, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Question of Constitutionality of Firm’s Flat Fee Contract,” reports that a school district board of trustees facing a takeover by the Texas Education Agency (TEA)...
NALFA’s Top 10 Attorney Fee Headlines of 2015
January 4, 2016
1. Nearly $1B AIG Securities Settlement Yields $120M Fee Award 2. Report: Spike in Patent Attorney Fee Awards Post-Octane 3. Study: Inconsistency in Fee Calculations in Securities Class...
NALFA Year in Review: Top NALFA Stories of 2015
December 29, 2015
Lexis Nexis Publishes NALFA’s Best Practices in Legal Fee AnalysisSeptember 9, 2015Meet the Nation’s Top Rated Attorney Fee ExpertsJune 19, 2015Bloomberg New Covers NALFA WebinarAugust 3,...
Fee Award Tossed on Untimeliness of Motion
December 18, 2015
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Fee Award Tossed, Based on Untimeliness of Motion” reports that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge correctly denied an award of attorney fees but for the wrong...
A recent humor piece in The New Yorker, “Lawyer for Martin Shkreli Hikes Fees Five Thousand Percent,” New York Times best-selling author Andy Borowitz writes about the recent arrest of Martin...
Law Students Show Fee-Shifting Cases Can Be Fee-Generating Cases
December 14, 2015
A recent ABA Journal story, “These Law Students Combine Technology With Fee-Generating Cases” reports that some law students at Suffolk University are getting real-life experience on how to make...
Chapter 13 Debtor’s Attorney Not Entitled to Fees, Costs
December 11, 2015
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Ch. 13 Debtor’s Attorneys Can’t Get Costs, Fees Paid” reports that a debtor’s attorney isn’t entitled to costs and fees in the absence of any proven injury...