A recent NLJ story, “Despite Quibbles, Plaintiffs’ Firms Like Estimate of Bluetooth Fees” reports that plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Motorola Bluetooth headset litigation, whose...
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A recent The Recorder story, “Justice Grapple with Attorney Fee Awards in Rest Break Suit,” reports that after wading into the latest wage-and-hour suit, the state Supreme Court sounded...
Attorney Fees in Landmark Gun Case Heads To Federal Circuit
February 27, 2012
A recent BLT Blog post, “Landmark D.C. Gun Case Heads To Appeals Court Over Legal Fees,” reports that Alan Gura, of Alexandria’s Gura & Possessky is taking the District of...
A recent Courthouse News story, “Oil Spill Attorneys’ Fees Upheld” reports that the 5th Circuit upheld a federal judge’s order giving 6 percent of all Deepwater Horizon...
NJ Rejects Perdue, Reaffirms Fee Analysis in Rendine
January 31, 2012
A New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upholds Rendine Fee Shifting, Declining to Follow U.S. High Court” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court reaffirmed its nearly two decade old...
Florida Supreme Court: Insuers Not Obligated to Pay Losing Policyholders' Attorney Fees
January 23, 2012
A recent Insurance Journal story, “Florida Supreme Court Rules Guaranty Fund Not Responsible for Legal Fees” reports that Florida’s high court has ruled that the state fund charged...
A recent NLJ story, “Federal Circuit Upholds $4.7M Fee Award to Cordis Over MarcTec’s Litigation Misconduct” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld...
A recent The Legal Intelligencer story, “Pa. Judges Uphold $5.6 Mil. Brake Class Action Against Kia” reports that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upheld a Philadelphia court class action...
Losing Plaintiff on the Hook for $8.4M in Attorney Fees
December 1, 2011
A recent The Recorder story “Linear Technology on the Hook for $8.4 Million in Attorney Fees” reports that a California court of appeals upheld a defense judgment in favor of Novellus...
Attorney Fee Allocation Dispute Resolved by Second Circuit
November 3, 2011
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Pares Emery Firm’s Fee in Favor of Plaintiffs’ Committee” reports that the long-running dispute over the allocation of attorney...