NJ Court Upends Fee Award, Citing Retainer
July 13, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upends $52K Fee Award, Citing Retainer Dispute,” reports that a $52,000 award in a New Jersey firm’s fee-recovery suit was tossed...
July 13, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upends $52K Fee Award, Citing Retainer Dispute,” reports that a $52,000 award in a New Jersey firm’s fee-recovery suit was tossed...
June 15, 2015
Today, in a 6-3 decision (pdf), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bankruptcy attorneys must bear the expense of defending their fees, which could make it harder for lawyers to get paid for their...
June 3, 2015
NALFA is hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. All our webinars are free for NALFA members and NALFA clients. So far this year, NALFA has...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Panel Vacates $200K Attorney Fee for JHO’s Lack of Records,” reports that a nearly $200,000 attorney fee award was vacated by an appellate...
May 1, 2015
A recent The Recorder story, “Hausfeld to Reap Hefty Fees for NCAA Suit,” reports that a federal judge has signaled he’s likely to award a large chunk of the $50 million requested by...
A recent USA Today story, “O’Bannon Lawyers Fight Huge Fee Reduction Sought by NCAA,” reports that lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Ed O’Bannon antitrust class action against...
February 13, 2015
A recent article, “Arbitration Provisions in Fee Agreements,” by Randy Evans and Shari Klevens of McKenna Long in Daily Report write about arbitration provisions in fee agreements. ...
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 6, 2015
A recent CBSSports.com story, “NCAA Wants O’Bannon Fees Reduced by at Least $41.7 Million,” reports that the NCAA wants a federal judge to reduce the Ed O’Bannon...
February 5, 2015
NALFA has developed a practice area that centers on attorney fee disputes. Generally speaking, attorney fee disputes are disputes between parties over the fees/costs associated with legal...