Great Reviews for NALFA Webinars
June 3, 2015
NALFA is hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. All our webinars are free for NALFA members and NALFA clients. So far this year, NALFA has...
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Category: Fees for Fees / Fees on Fees
SCOTUS Oral Arguments in ASARCO's Bankruptcy Fee Issues
March 16, 2015
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Tough Questions at $5 Million Fee Fight Before SCOTUS,” reports that predicting how the highest court’s nine justices will rule after they have heard...
Nation's Most Important Attorney Fee Rulings of 2014
December 24, 2014
NALFA tracks important attorney fee rulings in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. These fee rulings impact the body of law related to attorney fees. NALFA has ranked the most...
NALFA Bankruptcy Fee Examiners File Amicus Brief in Asarco Case
December 17, 2014
Bankruptcy fee examiners that included NALFA members Nancy Rapoport and Robert Fishman filed an Amicus Brief (pdf) with the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker Botts v. Asarco. At issue in the case is...
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Historic Fee Enhancement Case
October 2, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court will review a bankruptcy case that was one of the biggest and most bitterly contested Chapter 11 cases in U.S. history. Attorneys for Asarco, Baker Botts and Jordan Hyden...
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,...
NALFA in the News: Quoted As Industry Source in Reuters News
September 23, 2011
A Thomson Reuters News story, “Cuomo Considering Law Change on Class Action Attorneys’ Fees”, reports that lawyers in New York who successful challenge class action settlements on...
Class Action Fee Objectors Face Set Back in New York Courts
October 29, 2010
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Judges Deny Attorney’s Fees to Challenger in Class Action” reports that the state Court of Appeals in New York said lawyers who successfully...