Author name: Marc Alexander

Allocation/Landlord-Tenant/Section 1717: No Allocation Of Fees Required Between Contract And Tort Claims Where Claims Are Interrelated

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Landlord/Tenant, Cases: Section 1717

  $1.3 Million Fee Award Affirmed; Cassim Did Not Require Allocation in Civil Code Section 1717 Context      Landlord and tenant got involved in a lease dispute resulting in a suit where both dueling contract and tort claims were pitted against each side, with tenant ultimately prevailing by winning $116,859 in lease damages and a […]

Fees As Damages: Stearman Investigative Costs In Construction Defect Matter Awarded To Plaintiff–But Well Under A Third Of Requested Expenses

Cases: Fees as Damages

  Award Affirmed, Because They Have To Be Reasonable And Bear A Logical Relationship to the Successful Claims.      Altman v. John Mourier Construction, Inc., Case No. C064340 (3d Dist. Jan. 10, 2013) (unpublished) is an interesting construction defect case involving an award of Stearman expenses, a specialized issue to which we now turn with

News …. More Partners In Big Firms Face the Ax, Patrick J. Lamb Offers 2013 New Year’s Resolutions For Improving Client Services, Cities Where Associates Get The Best Bang For Their Buck, And Large Companies’ Legal Fees Increase For First Tw

In The News

       We ran across from some interesting articles in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, posts provided by Debra Cassens Weiss and Patrick J. Lamb. We now share. The Ax:  More Partnership Cutting Projected For Early 2013.      A Wells Fargo study shows that 15% of 120 law firms are planning around 15%

In The News . . . . NALFA Recaps Top Attorney’s Fee Cases For 2012

In The News

     Jack and the Giant.  Udo J. Keppler, artist.  1907.  Library of Congress.      We give a “hat tip” to the Attorneys Fees Blog of the National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) for sharing with us its top 5 attorney’s fees cases for 2012, which go this way:      1. $305 million — Southern

Family Law/Lien For Attorneys Fees: Attorney Did Not Get Additional Fee Recovery From Client Based On Lien Clause Language and Family Code Provision On Perfection Of Further Fee Recovery

Cases: Family Law, Cases: Liens for Attorney Fees

       In Fuchs & Associates, Inc. v. Lesso, Case No. B239246 (2d Dist., Div. 2 Jan. 8, 2013) (unpublished), an attorney sought to recover $647,688.13 in fees against a former client through a binding arbitration, fees in addition to what the client already had paid (about $481,000) in dissolution-related proceedings. The arbitrator awarded zilch/nada,

SLAPP/Substantiation Of Reasonableness Of Fees: $20,000 Fee Award To Winning Defendant Affirmed On Appeal

Cases: SLAPP, Cases: Substantiation of Reasonableness of Fees

  Later Order Fixing Fees Allowed Appellate Jurisdiction on the Merits; However, Detailed Billing Records Were Not Needed to Substantiate Fee Request.      In Susott v. Auld-Susott, Case No. H037066 (Jan. 3, 2013) (unpublished), plaintiff lost a SLAPP motion and the trial court awarded defendant $20,000 in mandatory fees out of a requested $31,976.74. Plaintiff

Section 998: Co-Contributor Mike Completed Survey of Section 998 Decisions Of Interest In 2012 In Recent Orange County Lawyer Article

Cases: Section 998

       Because all of us must now rebound from lots of Holidays feasts and Bowl games, we inform you that co-contributor Mike has written a published article, “CCP § 998 Fees/Cost Shifting: Outburst of Decisions in this Area,” available for reading in the January 2013 edition of the Orange County Lawyer. The article surveys

Year End 2012 California Intermediate Fee/Costs Decisions

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Liens for Attorney Fees, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

  Here are the remaining December 31, 2012 intermediate DCA decisions on fees/costs issues, Liens For Attorneys Fees: Timothy D. Reubon, Inc. v. One West Bank, Case No. B234958 (2d Dist., Div. 1 Dec. 31, 2012) (unpublished)      In this one, judgment creditor/former attorney obtained a judgment against judgment debtor/former client for past due services.

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