In any field of analysis, a professional methodology is always preferred to an ad hoc personal or solo methodology. But in legal fee analysis, each attorney fee expert and legal bill auditor...
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Archive: 2015
A recent blog post, “California Court Allows Insurer to Sue Independent Counsel for Fees” by Whitney Warren, discusses the recent California Supreme Court decision in Hartford Casualty...
Bank of America Claims Excessive Fees in Bankruptcy Case
August 13, 2015
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Bank of America Claims Akin Gump’s Legal Fees Excessive,” reports that Bank of America describes Akin Gump as one of the “preeminent” U.S....
Contingency Fee Allocation Dispute in Deepwater Horizon MDL
August 12, 2015
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Houston Lawyers in Fight Over Contingency Fees,” reports that Houston lawyer Hamilton G. Rucker filed a suit seeking more $3.1 million as his share of...
Four-Figure Hourly Rates Common for Top Supreme Court Attorneys
August 11, 2015
A recent NLJ story, “Hourly Rates for Top Supreme Court Advocates Revealed in Fee Filing,” reports that recent filings in an attorney fee request in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Nearly $50M in Fees Sought in NJ Exxon Settlement
August 10, 2015
A recent Daily Record story, “Legal Fees in ExxonMobil Case Could Cost NJ About $50 Million,” reports that more than one-fifth of a proposed $225 million settlement between Gov. Chris...
Delaware to Rule on "Work-Around" to SCOTUS Fee Ruling
August 7, 2015
A recent Bloomberg News story, “Delaware Judge to Rule on Evading High Court Legal Fee Decision,” reports that after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that bankruptcy lawyers...
A recent The Street story, “Goldman’s $1.45 Billion in Legal Fees Show Financial Crisis Fallout Still Lingers,” reports that Goldman Sachs set aside $1.45 billion for...
A recent Wall Street Journal story, “Judge Chides Lawyers on Twin Cities Archdiocese Bankruptcy Fees,” reports that a Minneapolis bankruptcy judge criticized legal fees and expenses...
Madoff Trustee Seeks an Additional $40M in Fees
August 4, 2015
A recent Wall Street Journal story, “Madoff Trustee’s Firm Seeks Payment of Legal Fees,” reports that the law firm leading the charge to recover the funds that Bernard Madoff stole...