A recent Metropolitan News story, “C.A. Affirms Denial of Attorney Fees to Out-of-State Counsel,” reports that The Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday upheld an Orange Superior...
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FHFA Paid Plaintiffs' Firms $373.5M to Sue Banks
July 16, 2015
A recent Reuters story, “U.S. Housing Regulator Paid Law Firms $373 Million to Sue Banks,” reports that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) disclosed that it paid two law firms...
Firm Must Pay Fee to Avandia MDL Committee
July 15, 2015
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Firm Must Pay Fee to Avandia MDL Committee,” reports that a firm that used work product from a plaintiffs' steering committee in the Avandia...
A recent CBS Sports story, “NCAA Ordered to Pay $46 Million in Ed O’Bannon Legal Fees,” reports that a federal magistrate judge ordered the NCAA to pay nearly $46 million to Ed...
NJ Court Upends Fee Award, Citing Retainer
July 13, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upends $52K Fee Award, Citing Retainer Dispute,” reports that a $52,000 award in a New Jersey firm’s fee-recovery suit was tossed...
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Judge Issues $4.5M Judgment, but Slashes Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Fees,” reports that plaintiff lawyers won a jury trial and a $4.5 million final judgment for...
A recent American Lawyer story, “An Expensive Victory for the Beastie Boys,” reports that the Beastie Boys had the right to hire a “Cadillac” legal team at Sheppard Mullin to...
Court Upholds $1.7M Fee Award in Insurance Dispute
July 1, 2015
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Court Upholds $1.7M Fee Awards in Title Insurance Dispute,” reports that a New Jersey appeals court has upheld a $1.7 million attorney fee award...
A recent Reuters story, “Delaware Bans ‘Loser-Pays’ Rules in Corporate Class Actions,” reports that Delaware's governor has signed into law a ban on companies adopting...
Meet the Nation’s Top Rated Attorney Fee Experts
June 16, 2015
Attorney fee experts are judicially qualified expert witnesses who provide expert declarations on the reasonableness of attorney fee and expenses. Attorney fee experts are retained when attorney...