Cases: Fee Clause Interpretation

Real Estate Sales Contract Allows Plaintiffs to Recover Attorney’s Fees for Judicial Proceedings Connected with Arbitration

Cases: Fee Clause Interpretation, Cases: Substantiation of Reasonableness of Fees

Fifth District Drops Some Tantalizing Dicta About The Causal Relationship Necessary to Conclude Disputes “Arise Out of a Contract” for Purposes of Awarding Fees.             Although one might think that unpublished decisions only involve mundane issues of legal application, our posts have shown that they frequently confront novel issues or provide dicta […]

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             In our June 27, 2008 post, we examined Roberts v. Ross, a recent Fourth District, Division One unpublished case construing trial court discretion to award certain non-specified, non-prohibited costs as routine costs “necessary for the litigation” under a catchall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