NALFA recently conducted a survey of federal and state judges in some of the nation’s busiest courts. NALFA asked over a 1,000 trial-level judges a range of questions related to awarding attorney...
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Attorney Defends $6M Fee Request For $2.75M Class Award
June 15, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “NavSeeker Attorney Defends $6M Fee, $2.75M Class Award,” reports that attorneys seeking a $6 million fee for winning a proposed $2.75 million buyout of minority...
Lawyer for Uber Drivers Self Reduces Fee Request
June 14, 2016
A recent The Recorder story, “Lawyer for Uber Drivers Slashes Fee Request,” reports that, stung by accusations that she sold out hundreds of thousands of Uber drivers to enrich herself, plaintiffs...
A recent Law 360 story, “Ford Hybrid Drivers Win $850K Atty Fees in Pump Defect Row,” reports that a California federal judge handed a victory to a group of Ford drivers that secured a recall of...
$4.25M in Attorney Fees in Shop-Vac Class Settlement
May 31, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Shop-Vac Class Settlement to Net $4.25M in Attorney Fees,” reports that a federal judge's preliminary approval of a settlement in the Shop-Vac marketing and...
A recent ABA Journal story, “Citing Brief Error, 6th Circuit OKs $6,800 in Legal Fees; Counsel Sought $180K in Coffeemaker Suit,” reports that plaintiff Pamella Montgomery still gets the $250...
More Scrutiny of Billing Rates in Bankruptcy Cases
May 18, 2016
A recent American Lawyer story, “Latham Lands Latest Energy Bankruptcy as Fees Draw Scrutiny,” reports that Latham & Watkins is the latest Am Law 100 firm to find a silver lining in the energy...
$1.5M Attorney Fee Award in Diet Drug MDL
May 12, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “$1.5M in Attorney Fees Awarded in Diet Drug Cases,” reports that a federal judge has awarded $1.5 million to a law firm representing plaintiffs in the diet...
A recent Law 360 story, “Law Firm Fee Hikes Under Scrutiny in Caesars Bankruptcy,” reports that the committee scrutinizing the professional fees being charged in the Caesars Entertainment...
A recent The Recorder story, “New Rules Mean It’s Payback Time in Patent Cases,” reports that it's been two years since the U.S. Supreme Court rewrote the rules for fee-shifting in patent cases...