A recent The Recorder story, “Prosecutors: Nosal Should Foot O’Melveny’s $1 Million Bill,” reports that the federal prosecutors say David Nosal, the former executive recruiter...
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NALFA's Top Attorney Fee Awards of 2013
January 6, 2014
NALFA’s Attorney Fees Blog reports on attorney fee matters from across the U.S., including attorney fee awards. The following are the largest fee awards in 2013. The following does...
NALFA's Top Attorney Fee News Headlines of 2013
January 3, 2014
3rd Circuit Sets New Precedent on Attorney Fees New York Appeals Court Expands Catalyst Theory of Attorney Fees Court Awards $310M in Attorney Fees in Flat Panel MDL Tort Reform Lobby Targets...
Ninth Circuit Tosses Fee Award in Prius Litigation
December 31, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Circuit Tosses Attorney Fee Award in Prius Litigation,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has again struck down an award of attorney fees in...
Ninth Circuit Ends $28M Fee Allocation Dispute in Walmart MDL
December 30, 2013
A recent The Recorder story, “In Walmart Fee Fight, Ninth Circuit Balks at ‘Non-Appealable’ Arbitration,” reports that two Bay Area plaintiff lawyers have won an arbitration...
Ambiguous Contingency Fee Agreement Could Cost Lawyers
December 23, 2013
A recent The Legal Intelligencer story, “Flawed Notice of Contingency Terms Cuts Attorney Fees,” reports that the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a law firm’s contingency...
Concerns Over Attorney Fees in NFL Concussion Settlement
December 20, 2013
When the NFL announced the concussion settlement in August, the former players assured the league that no part of the $765 million settlement was for lawyers. Plaintiffs’ lawyers were to...
Senate Weighs Fee Shifting Provision in Patent Reform Legislation
December 19, 2013
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “Senate Weighs Fee Shifting in Anti-Patent Troll Bills,” reports that business leaders urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to include fee shifting in...
DOJ Raises Immunity Issues in Fee Request
December 18, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees,” reports that following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the...
Billing Records Needed in Naked Juice Settlement
December 17, 2013
The fate of a $9 million class action settlement involving Naked Juice products rests on whether or not lawyers representing the plaintiffs can prove how many hours they spent working on the case....