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NALFA Podcast Interview with Law Professor Brian Fitzpatrick

February 15, 2017 | Posted in : Article / Book, Billing Practices, Fee Allocation / Fee Apportionment, Fee Award, Fee Award Factors, Fee Calculation Method, Fee Data / Fee Analytics, Fee Request, Fee Scholarship, Lodestar, NALFA News

NALFA hosts a podcast series on attorney fee issues.  We talk with thought leaders, attorney fee experts, and attorney fee newsmakers who've helped shape and influence the jurisprudence of reasonable attorney fees.  NALFA interviews members, faculty, judges, law professors, in-house counsel, and others on a range of attorney fee and legal billing issues.  All NALFA Podcasts are free.

In its inaugural podcast, NALFA interviewed Brian T. Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.  The NALFA podcast with Professor Fitzpatrick focused on his seminal research on class action attorney fee awards and his study of professional fee objectors in the class action model. This podcast talked about his background, explored his research, and considered what his work means for the plaintiffs’ bar and the future of class actions. 

The podcast discussion centered around the economics of class action fee awards and the current politics in the class action world.  Professor Fitzpatrick's scholarly work on attorney fees includes, An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards, Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little? and The End of Objector Blackmail?  This research was discussed in the podcast.

"These podcasts are the perfect broadcast format to discuss attorney fee and legal billing issues," said Terry Jesse, Executive Director of NALFA.  "Professor Fitzpatrick went beyond his research and shared his personal views, the current politics at play in class actions, and even proposed a new fee calculation method for class actions.  He also talked about his future research and his plans to write a book on the subject," Jesse said.  Click on the link below to listen to the NALFA podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/thenalfa/interview-with-law-professor-brian-fitzpatrick