A recent Law 360 story by Dani Kass, “Special Master Blasts Cisco’s $4M Fee Bid, Oks Apple’s $2M,” reports that a special master appointed by U.S. District Judge William Alsup lectured Cisco...
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A recent Law 360 story by Dani Kass, “Full Fed. Circ. Urged to Fix Divergent Attorney Fee Ruling,” reports that the Federal Circuit deviated from nearly every other circuit court and U.S. Supreme...
Law Firms See Attorney Fee Reductions from State Street Case
February 28, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Chris Villani, “3 Law Firms See $15M Chopped From State Street Fees,” reports that a federal judge slashed attorney fees for Labaton Sucharow, Thornton Law and Lieff...
Hotel Group Seeks Attorney Fee Reductions
February 7, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Kelly Zegers, “Hotel Wants Four Seasons’ $1M Atty Fee Request Slashed,” reports that Burton Way Hotels Ltd. asked a California federal court on to slice by more than...
Second Circuit: No Attorney Fee Caps in FLSA Settlements
February 4, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Braden Campbell, “2nd Circ. Says There’s No Attorney Fee Can in FLSA Deals,” reports that district courts should not limit plaintiffs’ attorney fees to a third of the...
$6.2M Fee Award in Virgin Airline Wage Class Action
January 21, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Vin Gurrieri, “Attys Behind $77M Virgin Wage Win Sought $13M Get $6M,” reports that lawyers for Virgin America flight attendants who recently won $77 million over claims...
Fee Request Slashed in Sunoco Pipeline Challenge
January 7, 2020
A recent Law 360 story by Matt Fair, “Pa. Enviro Board Slashes Fee Award in Pipeline Challenge,” reports that a Pennsylvania environmental appeals board granted only a fraction of a...
NCAA Ordered to Pay $33M in Fees and Costs in Antitrust Case
December 25, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Dave Simpson, “NCAA Owes Student-Athletes’ Attys $33M in Fees and Costs,” reports that a California magistrate judge ordered the NCAA to pay $31.8 million to cover the...
Hourly Rates and Billing Practices Questioned in Ditech Bankruptcy
December 13, 2019
A recent American Lawyer story by Samantha Stokes, “Weil Facing Sharp Fee Objections in Ditech Bankruptcy,” reports that a U.S. trustee is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to slash fees of...
DOJ Asks Federal Circuit to Toss $7M Fee Award
December 5, 2019
A recent Law 360 story by Tiffany Hu, “DOJ Asks Fed. Circ. To Scrap Dentons’ $7M Fee Award,” reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking the Federal Circuit to wipe out $7.4 million in...