March 2011 Article in The Advocate Magazine Explores Central Fee Issues.
For readers wanting a recent primer on key issues in attorney’s fees litigation, we commend for reading Joseph P. Wohrle’s article “Identifying Key Issues in Attorney’s Fees Litigation” which is published in the March 2011 edition of Advocate Magazine.
Mr. Wohrle, a partner in Santa Monica-based Allen + Wohrle, LLP and an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School, covers these topics:
*”Who gets a fee award?”
*Theories of recovery of attorney’s fees.
*Recovery of attorney’s fees under Civil Code section 1717 (broken down, in turn, to look at these subtopics: substantive aspects of Civil Code section 1717; bilateral application of contractual fees clauses as a matter of law; was the claim upon which fees are being sought “on the contract”?; “prevailing party” determination; calculating the amount of the award: the “lodestar”; and procedural aspects of Civil Code section 1717).