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Low Claim Rate and Fee Ask Doom Data Breach Settlement

February 18, 2022

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Ninth Circuit Considers Class Counsel’s $98M Attorney Fee Win

February 17, 2022

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Hagens Berman Defends $31M Fee Award Before Fifth Circuit

February 16, 2022

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Fifth Circuit Erases $500K Fee Award to Liberty Mutual

February 15, 2022

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Apple Challenges $27.5M Attorney Fee Request in Class Action

February 14, 2022

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Federal Circuit Considers Attorney Fees in Tossed IP Action

February 11, 2022

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Practice Area: IP Litigation

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First Circuit Affirms Sanctions in Long-Running Fee Dispute

February 10, 2022

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Judge Reduces Billing Rates in FCRA Case

February 9, 2022

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Court Tosses Mootness Fee Request in Microsoft Merger Case

February 8, 2022

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Hausfeld Doesn’t Have to Disclose Fees in UK Google Suit

February 7, 2022

Fee Discovery / Fee Disclosure

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Attorneys Earn $50M in Attorney Fees in Glumetza Antitrust

February 4, 2022

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Law Firms Seek $3.5M in Fees in HomeFed Buyout Settlement

February 3, 2022

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$4.1M in Fees in $24.5M Southern Copper Class Settlement

February 2, 2022

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Law Firm Gets Pushback on Billing Rates in Fee Request

February 1, 2022

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$5M Attorney Fee Dispute in Live Nation Injured Worker Case

January 31, 2022

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Second Circuit Vacates ‘Windfall’ Attorney Fee Award

January 28, 2022

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Sixth Circuit Affirms Attorney Fees in CHS Qui Tam Actions

January 27, 2022

Fee Doctrine / Fee Theory

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$5.7M ‘Audacious’ Fee Request Reduced to $2.5M Fee Award

January 26, 2022

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Judge Largely Rejects Fee Request in Failed Whistleblower Case

January 25, 2022

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