A recent Metropolitan News story, “Pre-Suit Demand Can’t Serve As ‘Catalyst’ For Public Benefit, Justifying Fee Award,” reports that an attorney fee award may not be made based on a...
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Second Circuit Rejects Fee Request After Landmark SCOTUS Ruling
September 30, 2020
A recent Connecticut Law Tribune story by Tom McParland, “2nd Circuit Blocks Attorney Fees for Troopers Who Recovered Union Dues After Landmark SCOTUS Ruling,” reports that a Manhattan-based...
Attorney Fees Under CA Trade Secrets Act Belong to Attorney, Not Client
September 16, 2020
A recent Metropolitan News-Enterprise story, “Attorney Fees Under Trade Secrets Act Belong to Attorney, Not Client—C.A.,” reports that attorney fees awarded to a “prevailing party” under...
Article: When Do Insureds’ Legal Fees Constitute Defense Expenses?
September 11, 2020
A recent Law.com article by David Kroeger and Catherine Doyle of Jenner & Block LLP, “When Do Insureds’ Legal Fees Constitute Defense Expenses?,” reports on attorney fees and expenses in...
Article: A Mixed Ruling on Coupon Redemption Rates and Attorney Fees
September 8, 2020
A recent Law.com article by Diane Flannery, Trent Taylor, Frank Talbott, and Andrew Gann of McGuireWooods LLP, “A Mixed Ruling on Coupon Redemption Rates and Atty Fees,” reports on the recent...
A recent New York Law Journal article by Julian D. Ehrlich, “The Attorney Fee Key to Unlocking Additional Insured Coverage” reports on a new decision awarding attorney fees in a declaratory...
Attorney fee awards are a major driver of class action litigation – both in the employment and other contexts. How they are awarded, and what is “reasonable” has been an ongoing source of...
Contingency Fee Percentages in Megafund Class Actions
August 21, 2020
Quinn Emanuel relies mostly on recent attorney fee scholarship and attorney fee jurisprudence in their recent $185M attorney fee request in the ACA class action. Their fee request reads: In one...
A recent Law 360 story by Bill Wichert, “NJ Judge Wrongly Used Private Practice Past to Cut Atty Fees” reports that a New Jersey state judge improperly relied on unpublished decisions and her own...
A recent Law 360 story by Daniel Siegal, “Atty Stuck With Slashed Fees After USAA Bad Faith Trial Win” reports that an Oregon federal judge refused to reconsider his ruling awarding only $179,000...