A recent Daily Business Review story by Katheryn Tucker, “11th Circuit Reverses Fee Award in Miami Construction Dispute,” reports that, in a ruling that the winning lawyer said saved the...
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No Attorney Fees for Cruise Line Despite Win in $5M Diamond Sale
November 26, 2018
A recent Law 360 story by Carolina Bolado, “No Fees for Starboard Despite Win in $5M Diamond Sale Row,” reports that a Florida appeals court affirmed the denial of an attorneys’ fee award for...
Ninth Circuit: Big City Rates Proper Where Local Counsel Unavailable
November 21, 2018
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Award of Attorney Fees at ‘Big City’ Rate Proper Where Local Counsel Unavailable,” reports that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a...
Fifth Circuit ‘Stunned’ Over Fee Request in FDCPA Case
November 19, 2018
A recent Texas Lawyer story by John Council, “5th Circuit ‘Stunned’ Over $130,000 Fee Request by 2 Texas Lawyers in $1,000 FDCPA Case, Awards Them Zero,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals...
A recent Law 360 story by Emma Cueto, “7th Circ. Again Rejects CVS’ Atty Fee Win Against EEOC,” reports that a Seventh Circuit panel has preserved its rejection of an attorneys' fee award in...
SCOTUS Won’t Hear Case Involving Fee Award Calculation Method
November 13, 2018
A recent Law 360 story by Michael Phillis, “High Court Won’t Hear $17.3M Fee Dispute in Gas Royalty Row,” reports that the Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to a Tenth Circuit...
$21.3 in Fees in $142M Wells Fargo’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Settlement
November 9, 2018
A recent The Recorded story by Amanda Bronstad, “Objectors Appeal $142 Million Settlement Over Wells Fargo’s ‘Fake Account’ Scandal,” reports that at least eight objectors have appealed...
A recent SCOTUS Blog post by Kathryn Moore Guest, “Argument Preview: Justices Consider Cap on Attorney’s Fees for Successful Representation of Social Security Disability Claimants,” reports...
Nevada High Court Upholds Gordon & Rees Win in Fee Dispute Case
November 2, 2018
A recent Law 360 story by Aebra Coe, “Nevada High Court Affirms Gordon & Rees Win in Fee Dispute” reports that the Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury verdict awarding Gordon & Rees LLP...
CA Court: Attorney Fees Might Have Been Awardable as Damages
October 23, 2018
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Attorney Fees Might Have Been Awardable as Damages” reports that the Fourth District Court of Appeal declared that a trust that had to continue defending...