Cases: Fee Clause Interpretation

Plaintiff’s Professional Malpractice Claim, Although Involving A Contractual Relationship, Was Not “On the Contract” So As To Allow Fee Recovery Under Civil Code Section 1717

Cases: Fee Clause Interpretation

First District Recognizes the Distinction In Affirming Trial Court Decision Refusing To Award Fees to a Winning Plaintiff.             Client retained Former Attorneys to represent his interests as a creditor in a bankruptcy proceeding.  Client signed a retainer agreement providing that Attorneys would use their best efforts to represent Client’s interests and […]

Routine Costs Can Include Court-Appointed Assistants Necessary to the Litigation and Attorney’s Fees Clauses in Several Agreements Will be Interpreted in an Integrated Fashion

Cases: Costs, Cases: Fee Clause Interpretation, Cases: Standard of Review

Fourth District, Division One So Holds In Partnership Dissolution Case.             In our June 27, 2008 post, we examined Roberts v. Ross, a recent Fourth District, Division One unpublished case construing trial court discretion to award certain non-specified, non-prohibited costs as routine costs “necessary for the litigation” under a catchall provision, Code

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