“There’s been a lot of hand-wringing from the tort reform lobby over attorney fees in class actions. Conservatives in the tort reform lobby complain about attorney fees in class...
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Archive: 2014
The Laffey Matrix (pdf) is used as a guideline for attorney fees in courts in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area. This fee schedule is also used by some other courts as well. The fee...
Nokia Corp. and its lawyers at Alston & Bird are seeking compensation of roughly $1.2 million from Quinn Emanuel for the lapse that resulted in confidential terms of an Apple-Nokia licensing deal...
Federal Judge Looks to Similar Cases to Award Fees
February 27, 2014
U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow approved a $3.6 million settlement in a stock-drop suit against Coventry Health Care Inc. The class action claimed Coventry executives breached their Employee...
Supreme Court Considers Attorney Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation
February 27, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases involving the attorney fee provision of 35 U.S.C. § 285. That statute provides that a “court in exceptional cases may award...
Fee Award Tossed Over Billing Records
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...
Samsung Challenges Apple's $15.7M Fee Request
February 20, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Samsung Fights Apple’s $15.7 Million Fee Request,” reports that Apple won’t get to cap off the first round of its patent battle with Samsung with...
Plaintiff on Hook for Patent Office's Attorney Fees
February 19, 2014
A recent NLJ story, “Plaintiff on Hook for Patent Office’s Attorney Fees,” reports that an “odd” federal law requires plaintiffs who bring lawsuits challenging the U.S....
Attorney Fees Mount in D.C. Medicaid Class Action
February 13, 2014
A recent NLJ story, “Attorney Fees Mount in Medicaid Litigation,” reports that attorney fees continue to mount in a decade a decades-old class action against the District of Columbia over...
Oracle Seeks $20M in Legal Fees from Insurer
February 9, 2014
A recent San Jose Mercury News story, “Oracle Seeks $20M in Legal Fees from Insurer,” reports that attorneys for Oracle are asking a Delaware judge to order an insurer to pay $20 million...