A recent article, "Former Partner gets Second Shot at Sonnenschein in Fees Dispute" reports that former Sonnenschein Nath partner Douglas Rosenthal, now at Constantine Cannon in Washington, DC will get a second shot at litigating damages in a compensation battle against his old firm. The article reports, "The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has granted Rosenthal a new trial for a portion of what he claims the firm owes him for generating about $18 million in fees while representing clients suing the Libyan government for the terrorist bombing of a Pam Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988."

The article continues, "Rosenthal turned to the appeals court last year after a D.C. Superior Court judge slashed his $3.7 million jury award to just $65,639. In an unusual step, the appeals court also offered Rosenthal the option of accepting the jury's original decision for some of those fees - without the trial judge's reductions - and moving on. It noted that although Rosenthal has not argued for such an option, it would give him the choice since a failure to do so would be "a gross mismanagement of the resources of a busy trial court."