A recent Am Law Daily story, “Billing Survey Shows Rates Ticking Up as Demand Dips,” reports that corporate clients purchased fewer hours from law firms in 2013 than they did the year...
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Legislation Would Grant Attorney Fees in Insurance Disputes
March 21, 2014
A recent Connecticut Law Tribune story, “Bill Would Grant Attorney Fees in Insurance Disputes,” reports that Connecticut lawmakers are considering several pieces of legislation that would...
A recent WSJ Law Blog story, “Chevron Asks Judge for $32.3 Million in Attorney Fees After Winning Case,” reports that Chevron Corp. has asked the judge who presided over the racketeering...
A recent The Recorder story, “Federal Circuit OKs $12 Million Fee Award in ‘Exceptional’ Patent Case,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld...
“There’s been a lot of hand-wringing from the tort reform lobby over attorney fees in class actions. Conservatives in the tort reform lobby complain about attorney fees in class...
The Laffey Matrix (pdf) is used as a guideline for attorney fees in courts in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area. This fee schedule is also used by some other courts as well. The fee...
Nokia Corp. and its lawyers at Alston & Bird are seeking compensation of roughly $1.2 million from Quinn Emanuel for the lapse that resulted in confidential terms of an Apple-Nokia licensing deal...
Federal Judge Looks to Similar Cases to Award Fees
February 27, 2014
U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow approved a $3.6 million settlement in a stock-drop suit against Coventry Health Care Inc. The class action claimed Coventry executives breached their Employee...
Supreme Court Considers Attorney Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation
February 27, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases involving the attorney fee provision of 35 U.S.C. § 285. That statute provides that a “court in exceptional cases may award...
Fee Award Tossed Over Billing Records
February 21, 2014
A recent The Recorder story, “Second District Casts Aside Fee Award in Party City Case,” reports that a $350,000 attorney fee award divided among six law firms in a consumer class action...