A recent Law 360 story, “Law Firm Fee Hikes Under Scrutiny in Caesars Bankruptcy,” reports that the committee scrutinizing the professional fees being charged in the Caesars Entertainment...
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NALFA Spotlight: KPC Legal Audit Services, Inc.
May 10, 2016
NALFA Spotlight is a new feature that focuses on one specific member, new and significant attorney fee jurisprudence or new trendsetting attorney fee scholarship. These newsworthy people, issues,...
NALFA Hosts Panel of U.S. District Judges on Attorney Fee Awards
February 29, 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 Cuts $8.6M Fee Request in Antitrust Case
January 11, 2016
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Best Buy Loses Bid for $8.6 Million Fee Award” reports that Best Buy Co. Inc., a national retailer of consumer electronics products, yesterday failed in its...
Lexis Nexis Publishes NALFA’s Best Practices in Legal Fee Analysis
September 9, 2015
Lexis Nexis, a corporation providing computer assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services, has published NALFA’s Best Practices in Legal Fee Analysis. The...
Judges Rely on Fee Expert John O'Connor in Fee Rulings
September 8, 2015
NALFA member John O’Connor is a fully qualified attorney fee expert with over 40 years of experience with large, complex attorney fee disputes. Mr. O’Connor has been retained as an expert...
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...
Bloomberg News Covers NALFA Webinar
August 3, 2015
Bloomberg BNA Class Action Litigation Report reported on the recent NALFA webinar, “Attorney Fees in Class Actions: Fee Calculations, Hot Issues & Trends.” The Bloomberg...
$81M Fee Allocation Dispute in Tech Wage Action
July 30, 2015
A recent Wall Street Journal story, “Lawyers Squabble Over $81 Million in Fees for Tech Wage Suit,” reports that a four-year lawsuit over hiring practices in Silicon Valley has taken...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Suit Sparks Brawl Over $589K in Attorney Fees,” reports that two Texas oil companies recently won a jury trial in a landman case fought in Dallas County,...