Fee Award Tossed Over Billing Records
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...
February 20, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Samsung Fights Apple’s $15.7 Million Fee Request,” reports that Apple won’t get to cap off the first round of its patent battle with Samsung with...
February 1, 2014
A recent blog post in Sheppard Mullin's Class Action Defense Strategy Blog, "Ninth Circuit Rejects Percentage Method to Determine Attorneys' Fees in Class Action Settlement," written by Shannon...
A recent post in Baker Hostetler’s Employment Class Action Blog, “California District Court Rejects FLSA Settlement Due to 78% Fee Award,” written by Greg Mersol, reflects...
January 13, 2014
A federal judge approved a $5.7 billion class action settlement between merchants and Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and a number of banks over credit card swipe fees. The settlement is believed to be...
January 9, 2014
NALFA was formed in 2008. Since then, NALFA and its members have been leaders in advancing the attorney fee dispute practice area in the U.S. Here is a list of some of NALFA's...
January 3, 2014
3rd Circuit Sets New Precedent on Attorney Fees New York Appeals Court Expands Catalyst Theory of Attorney Fees Court Awards $310M in Attorney Fees in Flat Panel MDL Tort Reform Lobby Targets...
December 16, 2013
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has rejected the United Parcel Service’s challenge to a nearly $700,000 attorney fee award in a gender discrimination case that resulted in a jury verdict of just...
December 12, 2013
A recent BLT blog post, “Judge Approves $153 Million Settlement in Fannie Mae Securities Class Action,” reports that a Washington federal trial judge today approved a $153 million...
November 24, 2013
A federal judge awarded less than half the requested attorneys’ fees (pdf) in a class action accusing Acer of making and selling computers that lack the memory to run the pre-installed operating...