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...
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...
August 24, 2013
A recent academic paper, “Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?” (pdf), by Vanderbilt Law Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick, published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review,...
August 17, 2013
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “In-House Counsel Seeing Increase in Litigation,” reports that more than one-third of general counsel in a recent survey, “Litigation &Corporate...
A recent Courthouse News Service, “Huge Fee Award OK’d for Lawyers in Motorola Suit,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a $55 million (27.5...
Case Settlement Amt. Fee Award % Multiplier In Re Enron Corp. Sec., Deriv. & ERISA $7.227B $688.23M 9.52 5.22 In Re WorldCom, Inc. Sec....
July 14, 2013
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “Comparing Firm Billing Rates by Practice, City, Size,” reports that New York tops a list of 12 cities with the highest average partner rates for...
July 14, 2013
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “GCs Not Satisfied With Outside Counsel Rates,” reports that the Consero Group’s new 2013 Spring General Counsel Survey (pdf), which addresses areas...
June 27, 2013
A recent NJ Today story, “State Comptroller Finds Local Governments are Wasting Money on Improper Legal Fees,” reports that the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) review of...
May 2, 2013
NALFA has identified 18 factors in court awarded attorney fees. Several of these fee factors draw from seminal fee jurisprudence cases Goldberger v. Integrated Resources and Johnson v. Georgia...
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “In M&A Litigation, Attorneys’ Fees Under Attack?,” reports that three court decisions last month have taken aim at plaintiffs’ attorney...