Cases: Paralegal Time

Costs/Private Attorney General: Nonprofit Organization Losing 5 Of 6 Issues Not Entitled To CCP § 1021.5 Fee Recovery For CEQA Reconsideration That Did Not Change Project

Cases: Costs, Cases: Paralegal Time, Cases: Private Attorney General (CCP 1021.5)

  Public Hearings Remand Was a Limited One, At Best; Attorney/Paralegal Work Stricken From Cost Award In County’s Favor.      A nonprofit organization out to save blue oak woodlands from the consequences of a development appealed a denial of a requested fee recovery under CCP § 1021.5 after they won a limited public hearings remand […]

Allocation/Class Actions/Common Fund/Private Attorney General/Paralegal Time: Court Of Appeal Finds Plaintiffs/Defendant Allocation Of Attorney’s Fees In Common Fund Case Was Fair, But Reverses Refusal To Award For Certain Attorney/Paralegal Time

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Common Fund, Cases: Paralegal Time, Cases: Private Attorney General (CCP 1021.5)

  Remand to Determine What Portion of Attorney and Paralegal Time Was “Administrative” in Nature.      Collins v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. B228882 (2d Dist., Div. 3 Apr. 20, 2012) (certified for publication) is a class action case where two class representatives on behalf of a class obtained a judgment-based common fund recovery

Fee Recovery For Paralegal Work: Orange County Lawyer Article Surveys Some Federal Decisions Where Paralegal Compensation Was Successfully Opposed Or Limited In Recovery

Cases: Paralegal Time

Proof of Paralegal Status and Compliance with Education/Certification Requirements Are Musts.      In our June 4, 2008 post, we discussed federal and state decisions that generally allowed paralegal time to be compensated under the EAJA or many California fee-shifting statutes. An interesting article, authored by Kirstin Simonson, has appeared in the November 2008 issue of

PARALEGALS UNITE!—UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDS PREVAILING PARTY MAY RECOVER ITS PARALEGAL FEES FROM THE GOVERNMENT AT PREVAILING MARKET RATES

Cases: Paralegal Time, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

High Court Construes EAJA To Allow Award of Paralegal Expenses as “Fees” at “Prevailing Market Rates.”             Petitioner Richlin prevailed against the Government on a claim before the Department of Transportation’s Board of Contract Appeals, and then filed an application for reimbursement, among other things, of paralegal fees pursuant to the Equal

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