NALFA's Top Attorney Fee Awards of 2013
January 6, 2014
NALFA’s Attorney Fees Blog reports on attorney fee matters from across the U.S., including attorney fee awards. The following are the largest fee awards in 2013. The following does...
January 6, 2014
NALFA’s Attorney Fees Blog reports on attorney fee matters from across the U.S., including attorney fee awards. The following are the largest fee awards in 2013. The following does...
January 3, 2014
3rd Circuit Sets New Precedent on Attorney Fees New York Appeals Court Expands Catalyst Theory of Attorney Fees Court Awards $310M in Attorney Fees in Flat Panel MDL Tort Reform Lobby Targets...
December 31, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Circuit Tosses Attorney Fee Award in Prius Litigation,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has again struck down an award of attorney fees in...
December 30, 2013
A recent The Recorder story, “In Walmart Fee Fight, Ninth Circuit Balks at ‘Non-Appealable’ Arbitration,” reports that two Bay Area plaintiff lawyers have won an arbitration...
December 23, 2013
A recent The Legal Intelligencer story, “Flawed Notice of Contingency Terms Cuts Attorney Fees,” reports that the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a law firm’s contingency...
December 20, 2013
When the NFL announced the concussion settlement in August, the former players assured the league that no part of the $765 million settlement was for lawyers. Plaintiffs’ lawyers were to...
December 19, 2013
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “Senate Weighs Fee Shifting in Anti-Patent Troll Bills,” reports that business leaders urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to include fee shifting in...
December 18, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees,” reports that following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the...
December 17, 2013
The fate of a $9 million class action settlement involving Naked Juice products rests on whether or not lawyers representing the plaintiffs can prove how many hours they spent working on the case....
December 16, 2013
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has rejected the United Parcel Service’s challenge to a nearly $700,000 attorney fee award in a gender discrimination case that resulted in a jury verdict of just...