The Laffey Matrix (pdf) is used as a guideline for attorney fees in courts in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area. This fee schedule is also used by some other courts as well. The fee...
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Nokia Corp. and its lawyers at Alston & Bird are seeking compensation of roughly $1.2 million from Quinn Emanuel for the lapse that resulted in confidential terms of an Apple-Nokia licensing deal...
Fee Award Tossed Over Billing Records
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...
Lodestar vs. Percentage Method in Prius Class Action
February 1, 2014
A recent blog post in Sheppard Mullin's Class Action Defense Strategy Blog, "Ninth Circuit Rejects Percentage Method to Determine Attorneys' Fees in Class Action Settlement," written by Shannon...
Ninth Circuit Approves Fee Award Greater Than Damages
December 16, 2013
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has rejected the United Parcel Service’s challenge to a nearly $700,000 attorney fee award in a gender discrimination case that resulted in a jury verdict of just...
Defense Lawyers Seek $25M in Fees in Circus Litigation
November 3, 2013
A recent BLT blog post, “Lawyers in Circus Litigation Seek $25M in Fees,” reports that lawyers for the producer of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus want the animal rights...
Judge Increases Lodestar by 50 Percent in FLSA Settlement
September 23, 2013
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Judge Bumps Up Lodestar by 50 Percent in Awarding Fees,” reports that a federal judge had sweeping praise for a million-dollar settlement, a third of...
Using Billing Surveys to Prove Hourly Rates
September 16, 2013
A recent Inside Counsel story, “Litigation: Using Bill Surveys to Determine ‘Reasonable’ Rates,” written by David McMahon of Barger & Wolen, exams the use of billing hourly...
Attorney with Unusable Billing Records Receives No Attorney Fees
August 20, 2013
A recent Metropolitan News story, “Attorney with Disbelieved Time Records to Receive No Fee,” reports that an attorney who sought nearly $25 million in attorney fees based on her...
Judge Appoints Fee Examiner in Detroit Bankruptcy Case
August 19, 2013
A recent Detroit Free Press story, “Judge Appoints $600/Hour Attorney to Monitor Excessive Fees in Detroit Bankruptcy,” reports that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes appointed a fee...