Federal Circuit: Misconduct Might Merit Attorney Fees
April 13, 2015
A recent NLJ story, “’Misconduct’ Might Merit Attorney Fees, Circuit Rules,” reports that a federal judge abused her discretion in denying attorney fees to a patent litigant...
April 13, 2015
A recent NLJ story, “’Misconduct’ Might Merit Attorney Fees, Circuit Rules,” reports that a federal judge abused her discretion in denying attorney fees to a patent litigant...
An upcoming Columbia Law Review article by law professors Lynn Baker and Charles Silver of the University of Texas and Michael Perino of St. John’s University entitled “Is the Price Right:...
March 23, 2015
A recent Reuters story, “AIG Investors’ $970.5 Million Settlement Wins U.S. Court Approval,” reports that American International Group Inc shareholders won approval of a $970.5...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “$6.2 Million in Attorney Fees, Costs Awarded in Hurricane Katrina Insurance Litigation,” reports that even though it’s been almost 10 years since...
March 6, 2015
A recent WSJ story, “Lawyers for Rural/Metro Shareholders Awarded $25 Million in Fees,” reports that a Delaware judge awarded $25 million to plaintiffs’ lawyers who successfully sued...
A recent Law 360 story, “VW, Audi Owners Win $15.5M in Attys’ Fees in Oil Sludge MDL,” reports that a Massachusetts federal judge approved roughly $15.5 million in attorneys’...
February 25, 2015
A recent Law 360 story, “High Court Won’t Hear $72M Bayer MDL Fee Fight,” reports that the U.S. Supreme Court passed on an appeal from plaintiffs’ attorneys in multidistrict...
February 11, 2015
A recent Metropolitan News Enterprise story, “Judge Erred in Denying Fee Award to Attorney Parris—C.A.,” reports that a California Court of Appeals held that a judge, appalled by the...
February 9, 2015
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Why Judges Deny or Cut Attorney Fees,” reports that when U.S. Judge Sam Sparks awarded Jerad Najvar’s clients $137,074 in attorney fees—only...
February 4, 2015
Attorney fee experts Trey Cox and Jason Dennis, partners at Lynn Tillotson Pinker Cox, LLP in Dallas, have authored, How to Recover Attorneys’ Fees in Texas, Third Edition 2014, published by...