A recent NLJ story, “Boston Federal Judge Awards Nearly $680K in Fees to Wine Association” reports that a Boston federal judge has awarded a wine association close to $680,000 in attorney...
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Walmart Class Action Attorney Fees Must Be Re-Calculated
June 13, 2011
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Superior Court Upholds $187.6 Mil. Class Action Against Wal-Mart” reports that the state Superior Court in Pennsylvania has upheld a $187.6 million...
A recent NLJ story, “Management Training Company Awarded Over $700K in Fees, Costs in Copyright Case” reports that a Boston federal judge has awarded Situation Management Inc. nearly...
A recent ABA Journal story, “Kagan Opinion Deems Fee-Shifting Calculations to Be ‘Rough Justice’” reports, that in an attorney fee award ruling before the U.S. Supreme Court,...
A recent NLJ story, “Mattel Hotly Resists Demand it Pay Attorney Fees in Bratz Doll Battle” reports that MGA, which makes the Bratz doll is seeking $129,688,073 in attorney fees from...
Former Client Questions Goodwin Procter's Fees
May 24, 2011
A recent Thomson Reuters story, “Wham-O Plays Hardball Over Goodwin Procter Fees” reports that Wham-O has hit Goodwin Procter with a lawsuit that claims the law firm overbilled it by...
A recent NLJ story, “Fight Over Bratz Doll Turns to Attorney Fees, Punitive Damages” reports that Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. is seeking attorney fees plus $177 million...
NALFA Attorney Fee Scoreboard: The Madoff Case
May 16, 2011
The trustee, Irving H. Picard of Baker & Hostetler LLP in New York, work in Re Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, has produced the following results, thus...
A recent Texas Tribune Story, “Loser-Pays Bill Clears Texas House” reports that Texas got one step closer today to becoming one of the few states with a rule that awards legal fees to...
City of Chicago Wants Fee Request Tossed Out
May 5, 2011
A recent NLJ story, “Chicago Wants Appeals Court to Shoot Down Legal Fee Request” reports that lawyers for the City of Chicago maintain the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the gun rights...