Cases: Allocation

POST-TRIAL ARBITRATION PROCEEDING NETS ATTORNEYS FEES FOR PREVAILING PARTIES WHO LOST AT TRIAL.

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Arbitration, Cases: War Stories

Defendants in Real Estate Concealment Case Win at Arbitration and Get Partial Recoupment of Attorneys Fees.             At a month trial in Orange County Superior Court, two individual clients of Mike Hensley suffered an adverse jury award of about $285,000.   The clients sold their prior San Juan Capistrano house to plaintiff buyers,

DISCRETION, DISCRETION, DISCRETION: TRIAL JUDGES DO NOT HAVE TO CREDIT EXPERT TESTIMONY ON THE VALUE OF ATTORNEY SERVICES IN FEE CONTESTS.

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Experts, Cases: Standard of Review

Second District Unpublished Decision Affirms Trial Judge’s Rejection of Expert Testimony on the Value of Services in Deciding an Attorney’s Fees Motion.             Even unpublished decisions can contain instructive lessons for practitioners in opposing requests for attorney’s fees, reminding us all that the trial judge is the one ultimately vested with discretion

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