NALFA's Top 10 News Stories of 2012
December 31, 2012
New Proposed Guidelines for Bankruptcy Fees in Large Cases Judge Approves $144M in Fees in Avandia MDL Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Seek $4.95M in Moody’s Shareholder Class Action First Circuit...
December 31, 2012
New Proposed Guidelines for Bankruptcy Fees in Large Cases Judge Approves $144M in Fees in Avandia MDL Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Seek $4.95M in Moody’s Shareholder Class Action First Circuit...
November 30, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a party whose petition under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was dismissed as untimely may recover an award of attorney fees and...
November 28, 2012
Federal courts routinely determine fee petitions for prevailing parties in various fee-shifting cases. A recent opinion from Magistrate Judge Denise LaRue illustrates guiding principles...
November 19, 2012
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Appeals Court Finds That ‘Legal Expense’ Connotes Attorney Fees,” reports that a contract providing that in the event of a dispute, the...
November 12, 2012
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Judge Approves Nearly $144 Mil. in Avandia MDL Attorney Fees,” reports that the federal judge presiding over the diabetes drug Avandia MDL has approved...
November 2, 2012
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “J&J Shareholders’ Suit Settles; $10M in Fees, Costs Expected,” reports that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to ramp up oversight of...
October 25, 2012
In June 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered partial judgment in favor of an insured against its insurer for unpaid defense expenses in Philadelphia Indemnity...
Szaferman Lakind Blumstein Blader & Lehman v. Parise in Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, is summarized as follows: Facts: Defendants retained Plaintiff attorneys in an underlying...
September 20, 2012
A recent The Legal Intelligencer story, “Avandia Plaintiff Counsel Seek Approval of Nearly $144 Mil. in Fees,” reports that as the federal Avandia MDL draws to a close after 65,000 claims...
A recent NLJ story, “First Circuit Finds Appeal of Fees Timely, Deepening Circuit Split,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has deepened the circuit split on the...