NALFA welcomes John D. O’Connor to the Attorney Fee Practice Group.  John O’Connor is the principal of O’Connor & Associates in San Francisco, specializing in attorney fee disputes.  Mr. O’Connor and his team have more than 35 years of experience dealing with complex attorney fee disputes and have served numerous clients as both litigator and expert consultant.

As a former Federal Prosecutor, Mr. O’Connor has successfully represented high-profile clients including the FDIC, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the  California Attorney General, and Golden State Warriors Head Coach Don Nelson.  He has analyzed numerous legal audits and expert fee opinions in attorney fee disputes throughout the country, and frequently serves as an expert witness on a range of attorney fee and billing matters.

In published opinions in two recent cases, the Court specifically referred to Mr. O’Connor’s expert opinions as the basis for discrediting auditor criticisms. One opinion supported a $19.8 million fee award, employing a 2.0 multiplier, in a wage and hour case; another, a $3.1 million fee award, with a 1.5 multiplier, in a wrongful termination case.

His seventy trials and forty years of litigating complex cases enables him to draw on a vast pool of experience. Mr. O’Connor and his team offer a broad range of services including disputes over the appropriate billing rates, litigation efficiency, task assignments, and staffing, litigation success and prevailing party determination, and litigation skill.  Their work in this area has been widely lauded by clients, lawyers, courts, and arbitrators.

For more information on John O’Connor & Associates, visit http://www.joclaw.com/