A recent the Recorder story, “Panel Lays Out New Rule for ‘Exceptional Case’ Fee Award” reports that The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld one of the first "exceptional...
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Ninth Circuit Remands Fee Award for Recalculation
January 18, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “Lowered Attorney Fees a Fail, 9th Circ. Rules” reports that, calling a federal judge's award of attorneys' fees "a near total failure," the Ninth Circuit Friday...
Judge Cuts Fee Request in 9/11 MDL
November 11, 2015
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Firms’ Discovery Fee Request is Trimmed on 9/11 Litigation” reports that in a sanctions award over defendants’ failure to comply with discovery orders in...
$200M Fee Request in Massive Price Fixing Case
September 25, 2015
A recent The Record story, “Plaintiffs Team Seeks $200 Million Payday in Price-Fixing Case,” reports that plaintiffs lawyers with Trump Alioto & Prescott have requested $192 million in fees...
Judges Rely on Fee Expert John O'Connor in Fee Rulings
September 8, 2015
NALFA member John O’Connor is a fully qualified attorney fee expert with over 40 years of experience with large, complex attorney fee disputes. Mr. O’Connor has been retained as an expert...
Judge Cuts $40M From Plaintiffs’ Fee Request in Antitrust Tech Case
September 3, 2015
A recent The Recorder story, “Koh Axes $40 Million in Fees for ‘No-Poach’ Lawyers,” reports that a group of prominent plaintiffs lawyers saw their request for fees slashed in half in the...
Bloomberg News Covers NALFA Webinar
August 3, 2015
Bloomberg BNA Class Action Litigation Report reported on the recent NALFA webinar, “Attorney Fees in Class Actions: Fee Calculations, Hot Issues & Trends.” The Bloomberg...
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...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Magistrate Cuts ‘Princely’ Fee Proposal by 80 Percent,” reports that a federal magistrate judge approved a $1.375 million class...
Attorney Fee Trends in MDL: What is "Common?"
May 19, 2015
A recent law firm blog post, “Attorney Fee Trends in Multidistrict Litigation: What is ‘Common?’”, by Alicia M. Raines and Jennifer R. Tudor of Barnes & Thornburg LLP...