A recent Law 360 article by Jason Russell, Hilary Hamilton and Adam Lloyd of Skadden Arps, “9th Circ. Ruling Signals Scrutiny of Class Settlement Fees,” reports on a recent ruling from the Ninth...
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5 Law Firm Seek $44M in Attorney Fees in GCI Liberty Action
August 5, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Rose Krebs, “5 Firms Seek $44M Atty Fees in GCI Liberty Suit in Chancery”, reports that five firms will seek $44 million in fees for their work in a suit filed over...
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...
Federal Circuit Backs $4.2M Fee Award in IP Case
May 11, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Adam Lidgett, “Fed. Circ. Backs Apple and Cisco’s $4.2M Fee Win in IP Case,” reports that the Federal Circuit has refused to undo a lower court order allowing Apple...
$503M Syngenta Attorney Fee Dispute Moves to Tenth Circuit
March 12, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Cara Salvatore, “10th Circ. Wary of Moving $503M Syngenta Fee Brawl,” reports that law firms vying for slices of a $503 million fee award from a Syngenta megasettlement...
$2B in Attorney Fees Offered in $26B Opioid MDL Settlement
November 5, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Emily Field, “$26B Opioid Deal Offer to Include $2B in Atty Fees,” reports that the $26 billion settlement proposal from Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corp.,...
A recent New York Law Journal article by Thomas E.L. Dewey, “Unusual Settlement Structure Leads to Approval of Fee Award Nearly Double the Payout,” reports on a recent New York class action were...
Issues Arise in Fee Proposal in Price Fixing Class Action
August 6, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Nadia Dreid, “Too Many Cooks in Kitchen, Telescope Co. Says in Price-Fix Row,” reports that telescope maker Celestron has urged a California federal judge to reject a...
The Nation’s Top Attorney Fee Experts of 2020
June 24, 2020
NALFA, a non-profit group, is building a worldwide network of attorney fee expertise. Our network includes members, faculty, and fellows with expertise on the reasonableness of attorney fees. We...