A recent Law 360 story, “Fla. Firm Fights For Cut of Fee From $12M Insurance Award,” reports that Rosenbaum Mollengarden PLLC argued for a cut of the fee award from a $12 million insurance...
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The Ethical Rules of Attorney Fee Sharing
July 25, 2016
A recent ABA Journal article “Sharing Fees with a Lawyer Outside the Firm is OK as Long as Certain Rules are Followed” by David Hudson report on the ethical rules of attorney fee sharing. The...
$115M Fee Request Dispute in Chinese Drywall MDL
July 14, 2016
A recent Reuters’ On the Case story “Fee Fight Blights $1.3 Billion Chinese Drywall Case,” by Alison Frankel reports that, after seven years of wrestling with scores of defendants, many of them...
NALFA is hosting the nation’s largest multi-state CLE program on attorney fees ethics, “Attorney Fees & Ethics: It Pays To Be Reasonable.” This live, remote CLE takes place on July 28,...
Law Firms Battle Over Attorney Fees
June 2, 2016
A recent Delaware Law Weekly story, “Two Wilmington Firms’ Battle Over Attorney Fees Rolls on Fees,” reports that a heated fee dispute between two Wilmington law firms will continue to play out...
The Ethics of Fee Splitting and Referral Agreements
April 25, 2016
A recent ABA Journal story, “When Can Two Lawyers From Different Firms Divide in a Referral Agreement?” reports that ABA Formal Ethics Opinion from the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and...
A recent DBR story, “Miami Attorneys Fight Over Fees in $2.87B Award Against Cuba” reports that two Miami attorneys and former friends are locked in a fierce battle over who should receive legal...
Fee Allocation Dispute Freezes Jury Award in Tobacco Case
April 12, 2016
A recent Daily Business Review story, “Fee Fight Freezes $3.5M Award in Tobacco Case” reports that a dispute among plaintiffs attorneys over the division of attorney fees has hung up the...
Article: Attorney Fees in MDL Cases Lack Case Law
March 14, 2016
A recent NLJ article, “The Wild West of Fee Fights” reports that fee fights among plaintiffs attorneys in multidistrict litigation have forced more federal judges in recent cases to wade into the...
SCOTUS Denies Fee Dispute Case in Avandia MDL
March 1, 2016
A recent NLJ story, “Girardi Keese Loses SCOTUS Bid in Avandia Fee Fight,” reports the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up Girardi Keese’s fight against turning over more than $10 million...