MGA-Orrick Fee Dispute Settles; Terms Private
July 17, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Orrick Settles Fee Fight With Doll Maker; Terms Secret,” reports that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has settled a fee dispute with former client MGA Entertainment...
July 17, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Orrick Settles Fee Fight With Doll Maker; Terms Secret,” reports that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has settled a fee dispute with former client MGA Entertainment...
A federal judge in New York approved a hotly disputed fee request for lawyers who negotiated a $217 million settlement with Madoff “feeder funds.” In a 43-page opinion, U.S. District...
June 11, 2013
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Third Circuit Sets New Precedent on Attorney Fees,” reports that setting new precedent on attorney fee recovery in the Third Circuit, the appeals court...
A recent The Recorder story, “In Netflix Captioning Case, an Unexpected Fee Fight,” reports that both sides are claiming victory in a disability rights class action against Netflix Inc.,...
A recent Thomson Reuters story, “Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Can Seek Fees from State Lawyers in Vioxx MDL,” reports that a federal judge has ruled that lawyers for individuals who sued...
The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) has launched a new pilot project that focuses on attorney fees in MDLs. Our objective is to work with courts to publish attorney fee award...
A recent Thomson Reuters story, “Court Awards $310M in Attorneys’ Fees in LCD Case,” reports that dozens of law firms that obtained more than $1 billion in settlements in a...
April 1, 2013
DLA Piper has issued a memo (pdf) is response to The New York Times story, “Suit Offers a Peek at the Practice of Inflating a Legal Bill” and in response to the suit, DLA Piper v....
March 21, 2013
A federal judge has referred a dispute over millions of dollars of attorneys’ fees related to the $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell class action lawsuit to a special magistrate for...
March 11, 2013
A recent New York Law Journal story, “A.G. Blasts Fee Request From Counsel Madoff Investors,” reports that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has blasted as unreasonable and “wildly...