A recent Law 360 story by Marco Poggio, “Judge Initially Oks 53 Firms’ Fee Plan in GM Ignition MDL,” reports that a federal judge in Manhattan pushed forward a plan for a three-tier system for...
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Ninth Circuit: $6M Fee Award Does Not Create ‘Windfall’
April 12, 2021
A recent Metropolitan News story, “$6 Million Attorney Fee Award Would Not Create ‘Windfall’,” reports that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, has reversed an order...
A recent Law 360 story by Mike Curley, “Attys Get $80.6M in Apple IPhone Slowdown Settlement,” reports that a California federal judge greenlighted a settlement of up to $500 million for iPhone...
California Appeals Court Clarifies Law on Attorney Fees
March 13, 2021
A recent The Recorder story by Alaina Lancaster, “Appeals Court Rules on ‘Curious Gap’ in State Law Over Attorney Fees,” reports that a California appeals court ruling underlined “a curious...
A recent Fordham Law Review working paper by Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “A Fiduciary Judge’s Guide To Awarding Fees in Class Actions (pdf),” considers the fiduciary role of judges in awarding...
Judge Says School District Overpaid Morgan Lewis
March 5, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Lauren Berg, “Judge Says School District ‘Greatly Overpaid’ Morgan Lewis,” reports that a New York federal judge awarded millions of dollars in attorney fees to the...
$110M Fee Request Trimmed in $650M Facebook Biometric Settlement
February 26, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Lauren Berg, “$650M Facebook Privacy Deal OK’d, $110M Atty Fees Trimmed,” reports that a California federal judge praised a $650 million settlement resolving claims...
Fee Request Reduced in Hospital Whistleblower Action
February 23, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Nathan Hale, “Hospital Whistleblower’s $1M Fees Award Falls Short of Goal,” reports that a whistleblower whose complaint against now-defunct hospital chain Health...
Article: Five Lessons for Recovering Attorney Fees in Texas
February 13, 2021
A recent article by Amanda G. Taylor, “Recovering Attorney’s Fees in Texas: Five Lessons” in BizLit News Blog reports on recovering attorney fees in Texas. This article was posted with...
Feds Urge Caution on $87M Fee Request in Apple Device MDL
December 3, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Christopher Cole, “Feds Urge Caution on $87M Atty Fee Bid in Slow-IPhone MDL,” reports that the U.S. government has criticized a request by plaintiffs' lawyers for an $87...