Attorney fee scholarship refers to empirical papers, reports and studies on attorney fees.  These mostly academic works have been heavily sited by members of the bar in their fee applications and members of the bench in their fee rulings.  Indeed, attorney fee scholarship drives attorney fee jurisprudence.  NALFA would like to formally and officially acknowledge these seminal works on attorney fees. 

Here are the nation’s most influential scholarship on attorney fees:

Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller, “Attorney Fees and Expenses in Class Action Settlements: 1993-2008” (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies)

Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards” (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies)

Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?” (University of Pennsylvania Law Review)

Lynn A. Baker, Michael A. Perino, and Charles M. Silver, “Setting Attorneys’ Fees in Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment” (Vanderbilt Law Review)

Michael A. Perino, “Markets and Monitors: The Impact of Competition and Experience on Attorneys’ Fees in Securities Class Actions” (St. John’s University School of Law)

Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller, “What is a Reasonable Attorney Fee? An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements” (Cornell Law Faculty Publications)

Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller and Michael A. Perino, “A New Look at Judicial Impact: Attorneys’ Fees in Securities Class Actions After Goldberg v. Integrated Resources, Inc.” (Washington University Journal of Law & Policy)