A recent Law 360 story, “Atty Gets Second Chance to Boost Fees in No-Fly List Case,” reports that the Ninth Circuit has kicked back an attorneys’ fee award for lawyers who represented a...
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Oracle Gets $46M in Legal Fees
September 23, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “Oracle Gets Whopping $46 Million in Legal Fees,” reports that a federal judge has ordered Rimini Street, an independent support provider for enterprise software,...
NALFA Hosts Second Program with Sitting U.S. District Court Judges
September 20, 2016
The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) is hosting an all judicial panel discussion on court awarded attorney fees. The CLE program is entitled, “View from the Bench: Awarding...
Ninth Circuit Restore Rates Cuts for Military Law Group
September 12, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “Appeal Puts Double Fee Award in Sight of Lawyers,” reports that the Ninth Circuit blasted a federal judge for stiffing a military-law group on half the fees it...
Supreme Court Revisits Attorney Fee Standards
September 2, 2016
A recent New York Law Journal article, “Supreme Court Revisits Attorney Fee Standards,” by Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein report on awarding attorney fees in copyright cases. This...
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Third Circuit Defines ‘Prevailing Party’ in Settlement Fee Dispute,” reports that a federal appeals court has determined that plaintiffs counsel should...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “$14M Earmarked as Receiver’s Attorney Fees in Stanford Litigation,” reports that in litigation stemming from the disgraced financier R. Allen Stanford $7 billion...
Judge Enhances Fee Award in Home Depot Data Breach MDL
August 26, 2016
A recent Daily Report story, “Judge Awards Enhanced Legal Fees in Home Depot Data Breach Case,” reports that a federal judge in Atlanta has awarded $7.5 million in legal fees to lawyers...
Merck on the Hook for Attorney Fees in Patent Case
August 24, 2016
A recent The Recorder story, “Merck on Hook for ‘Hefty’ Attorney Fees in Patent Row,” reports that Merck & Co. is going to have to pay Gilead Science's attorney fees from their...
Corporate Executive Can Pursue Attorney Fees in Bad Faith Action
August 22, 2016
A recent Delaware Business Court Insider story, “Genelux Founder Allowed to Seek Fee Award,” reports that the Delaware Supreme Court has partly vacated a Delaware Chancery Court decision and...