February 9, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Lawyers Can’t Use ‘Workaround’ to Get Paid for Defending Fees” reports that lawyers can't include fee defense provisions in their retention applications as a...
February 1, 2016
A recent NLJ story, “Three High Court Fee Challenges: One Winner, Two Losers,” reports that attempts by Texas and Shelby County, Alabama, to collect or to block attorney fees for successful...
January 28, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap Hammers Patent Plaintiff with $390K Fee Award,” reports that the bill has finally come due for the first Eastern District of Texas...
A recent the Recorder story, “Panel Lays Out New Rule for ‘Exceptional Case’ Fee Award” reports that The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld one of the first "exceptional...
December 18, 2015
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Fee Award Tossed, Based on Untimeliness of Motion” reports that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge correctly denied an award of attorney fees but for the wrong...
December 10, 2015
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Big Fee Awards in Patent Cases May Be Short-Lived” reports that a federal judge's decision to up the attorney fees awarded to the defense in a patent...
December 4, 2015
A recent NLJ story, “Justices Will Resolve Feud Over Jenner & Block’s Fee Award” reports the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to referee a long-running dispute between Jenner & Block and the...
December 1, 2015
A recent Business Insurance story, “Liberty Mutual on Hook for Gulf Oil Spill Attorney Fees” reports that a federal appeals court has ruled against an insurer in its quest to avoid paying...
November 18, 2015
A recent NLJ story, “$40.5M Fee to Plaintiffs Firms Upheld Against Western Union” reports that a federal appeals court has upheld $40.5 million in attorney fees in a settlement with the Western...
November 15, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Justices Mulling Counsel Fees for Non-Clients in Legal Mal Cases” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether attorneys who are found...
