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...
February 19, 2018
A recent Legal Intelligencer article by Rudolph J. DiMassa Jr. and Jarret P. Hitchings, “Approval of Fee Defense Provisions in Retention Agreements Post-ASARCO,” on recent approval of fee defense...
December 4, 2017
A recent article by Benjamin Feder, “Fees for Defending Fees – Recent Rulings Permit Contractual Circumvention of Supreme Court’s Baker Botts v. Asarco Decision,” reports on post-Asarco...
November 28, 2017
A recent Law 360 story by Adam Lidgett, “9th Circ. Backs Appellate Attys’ Fees for Benefit Plan,” reports that a Ninth Circuit panel reversed a lower court’s denial of appellate attorneys'...
November 24, 2017
A recent CEBblog article by Julie Brook, “4 Reasons to Get Help on a Fee Motion,” reports on attorney fee requests. This article was posted with permission. The article reads: Just because...
A recent Met News story, “Enhancement Based on ‘Risk’ Inapplicable in Seeking ‘Fees on Fees’ Award—C.A.” reports that an attorney fee award in connection with work done in securing fees...
April 24, 2017
A recent Metropolitan News story by Kenneth Ofgang, “Panel Upholds Award of ‘Fees-on-Fees’ Under Statute” reports that a statute that permits federal judges to sanction attorneys for...
November 3, 2016
A recent Bloomberg BNA story, “Bankruptcy Attorney Can Get Fees for Supplementing Fee Application,” reports that an attorney employed by a Chapter 7 trustee can recover $27,520 in fees he incurred...
March 23, 2016
A recent American Lawyer story, “Judge Rejects Baker Botts Fee Proposal in New Gulf Bankruptcy,” reports that, following a defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court last summer, Baker Botts proposed a...
