Attorney fee scholarship refers to empirical papers, reports and studies on attorney fees. These mostly academic works have been heavily sited by members of the bar in their fee applications and...
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A recent NLJ article, “An Oft-Overlooked Path to Recovering Costs, Fees,” by Sam Casey and Aaron Furniss of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta, reports that often overlooked in...
Texas Ordered to Pay Attorney Fees in Redistricting Case
June 26, 2014
A recent NLJ story, “Texas Fights Million-Dollar Legal Fee Award in Voting Case,” reports that a federal judge in Washington reached a “remarkable result” when she ordered...
A recent Commercial Litigation Insider story, “Ramos Questions Firm’s Billing Judgment in Reducing Fees,” reports that an attorney’s request for more than $1,000 an hour in...
Apple, HP Test New Supreme Court Fee-Shifting Ruling
June 16, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Apple, HP Chase Fees from Serial Patent Plaintiff,” reports that wielding the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on fee-shifting in patent cases,...
Safeway Loses Fee Dispute in Wage and Hour Action
June 5, 2014
A recent Law 360 story, “Safeway Can’t Shrink Fee Award in Calif. Wage-Hour Action,” reports that a California appeals court denied Safeway Inc.’s bid to shrink a fee award for...
A recent Thomson Reuters story, “Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe to Pay $325 Million to Settle Hiring Lawsuit,” reports that four major Silicon Valley companies have formally agreed to pay...
A recent Courthouse News Service story, “Massive Attorneys’ Fee Award Upheld on Appeal,” reports that attorneys who won a $7 billion judgment for bankrupt cooper-mining firm Asarco,...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Lack of Specificity Sinks Fee Award,” reports that the Texas Supreme Court has struck down an attorney fee award because lawyers didn’t tell the trial...
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Courts Won’t Upset Settlement or Fees in Dentists’ Suit Against Horizon,” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court will not disturb a...