Law’s $1,000-Plus Hourly Rate Club
July 23, 2018
A recent Wall Street Journal story by Vanessa O’Connell, “Big Law’s $1,000-Plus an Hour Club,” reports that leading attorneys in the U.S. are asking as much as $1,250 an hour, significantly...
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Category: Fee Request
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story by Michael Booth, “High-Low Agreement Sets ‘Hard Limit,’ Court Says in Barring Additional Fee Award,” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that...
A recent Daily Report story by R. Robin McDonald, “How a $534 Property Tax Challenge Ballooned into $83,900 in Legal Fees,” reports that at first glance, a Jackson County couple’s challenge of...
California Agency Seeks Attorney Fees in LSAT Matter
July 18, 2018
A recent The Recorder story by Karen Sloan, “LSAT Maker Owes $529K in Fees, Calif. Agency Asserts,” reports that the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has requested more than a...
A recent Legal Intelligencer story by PJ D’Annunzio, “In Suit Over Faculty Nuclear Missile Parts, Court Shoots Down $3M Attorney Fee Request,” reports that, in a settled lawsuit over defective...
NY Judge Vents on “Astronomical” Attorney Fee Requests
July 13, 2018
A recent New York Law Journal story by Christine Simmons, “Blasting Greenberg Traurig Request, Judge Says Fees ‘Zooming Out of Control’,” reports that a Manhattan judge has slashed Greenberg...
$1 Billion in Attorney Fees for Madoff Trustee
July 6, 2018
A recent American Lawyer story by Scott Flaherty, “Madoff Trustee Passes Milestone as Baker & Hostetler Fees Near $1B,” reports that, almost a decade into his role as trustee of funds...
A recent American Law story by Scott Flaherty, “Report Railing Against Lawyers’ Conduct in State Street Case ‘Unmoored,’ Says Labaton,” reports that a newly unsealed special master’s...
A recent Reuters story by Alison Frankel, “Judge in $3B Petrobras Securities Case Cuts Class Lawyers’ Fees by $100M,” reports that on the attorney fee award in the Petrobras securities class...
A recent The Recorder story by Ross Todd, “Judge Again Says She’s ‘Disappointed’ in Plaintffs Lawyers in Anthem Data Breach Case ,” reports that the federal judge overseeing litigation...