A recent Thomson Reuters Legal story, “Lawyers’ Fees Cut in FedEx Wage-and-Hour Case: Is this a Trend,” reports that in a recent case against FedEx, a federal judge in Los Angeles...
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Attorney Fees at Issue in Ticketmaster Settlement
July 30, 2012
A recent NLJ story, “Arguments Swirl Over Fairness of Ticketmaster Settlement,” reports that eight lawyers representing more than a dozen of the nearly 100 fee objectors to a consumer...
Google Seeks $4M in Legal Costs from Oracle
July 27, 2012
Google wants $4 million from Oracle to cover the legal costs it incurred during the infringement litigation over the Android mobile operating system. In a brief (pdf) of Google’s Bill of...
Ninth Circuit Rejects Attorney Fees in Kellogg Case
July 26, 2012
A recent NLJ story, “Ninth Circuit Rejects Mini-Wheat Settlement of Attorney Fees, Cy Pres Award,” reports that a federal appeals court has rejected a class action settlement over alleged...
Mayer Brown Litigates Unpaid Attorney Fees
July 23, 2012
A recent BLT Blog post, “Mayer Brown Sues Pacific Seafood Group for $5M in Fees,” reports that Mayer Brown filed a breach of contract lawsuit (pdf) in D.C. Superior Court against former...
A recent Thomson Reuters News story, “Analysis: Lawyers Eye Payday in Record Credit Card Settlement,” cited the National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) as the leading authority...
5 Ways to Collect Unpaid Fees from Clients
July 6, 2012
A recent FindLaw.com post, “5 Ways to Collect Unpaid Fees From Clients” by Andrew Lu of Top Floor Legal reports that a recent survey found that most attorneys only get paid for a fraction...
A recent Madison Record story, “Tillery Seeks at Least $18K in Fees From Third Party to Litigation – University of Chicago” reports that an attorney who will share close to $35...
A recent Corporate Counsel story, “Fee Fight the Next Battle in Oracle and Google’s Smartphone War?,” reports that while nothing has been filed in court, observers say the next...
7th Circuit: Attorney Fees 'Only Goal' of Plaintiffs' Lawyers in Sears Derivative Suit
June 19, 2012
A recent ABA Journal story, “7th Circuit Nixes ‘Feeable’ Sears Class Action, Says Its ‘Only Goal’ is Fees for Plaintiffs Lawyers,” reports that a federal appeals...