December 9, 2014
A recent Law 360 story, “Biggest Cos. Foresee Legal Cuts in 2015,” reports that two-fifths of legal departments at companies with revenue exceeding $10 billion said they expect their legal...
November 3, 2014
NALFA will be hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. These five 90-minute CLE programs will focus on each role and skills set within the attorney...
October 24, 2014
A recent article, “Tips to Ensure Recovery of Prevailing Party Legal Fees,” by Shepard Davidson of Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston, writes about the recent First Circuit opinion,...
U.S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana has written a new article, “Common Benefit Fees in Multidistrict Litigation” (pdf) in Louisiana Law...
July 15, 2014
Sky Analytics, a leading corporate provider of legal spend management software for corporate legal departments, recently announced the release of the first ever gender study based on actual billings...
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...
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...
April 14, 2014
In theory, the goal of a class action objector is to obtain a greater monetary benefit to class members. This can be done in one of two ways: (1) increase the overall amount of the settlement; or...
November 29, 2011
In a new academic paper, “An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and their Fee Awards” (pdf), Law Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt University Law School examines...
June 28, 2011
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