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After Winning $8.3 Million In Damages In A Decade Long Case. According to a recent Daily Journal article, Tamara Evans, who won an $8.3 million damages award in a retaliation case against California’s police training commission, is seeking $7.2 million in attorney’s fees from the state, which is alleged to have prolonged the litigation for

Many Of The Attorneys Billed At Least $1,300 Per Hour.                According to an August 8, 2025 article by Andrew Khouri and David Zahniser in the Los Angeles Times, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, representing City of Los Angeles, in a homeless encampment case after a favorable municipal ruling by SCOTUS on the legality of

Ask Was $557,945, With Dispute Involving Production Of The Huntington Beach Air Show Settlement Agreement.                In Clayton-Tarvin v. City of Huntington Beach, Case No. 2023-01329927 (Orange County Superior Court Jan. 6, 2025 [tentative ruling on fee motion]), petitioner moved for attorney’s fees under California Public Records Act for getting Huntington Beach to produce a

In A Prior Jury Retrial, She Was Awarded $14 Million.                As reported recently by The Orange County Register, a UC hematologist, Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown, was awarded over $3.9 million in attorney’s fees, as against the UC Regents on December 19, 2024, by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge after she won a $14

$35 Million In Fees Is The Preliminary Settlement Amount, According To The Orange County Register.                In a December 17, 2024 article in The Orange County Register, Walt Disney Co. has agreed to settle a wage/hour class action by Anaheim theme park employees to the tune of $179.6 million for back pay and retirement contributions

Statute Was Enacted Per AB 2803, Directed At Campaign Funds Used To Pay Defense Attorney’s Fees.                Last Wednesday, Governor Newsom signed into law AB 2803, which amended Government Code sections 89513 and 89514 to require a political candidate, if convicted, to reimburse campaign funds used to pay attorney’s fees for certain felony public and

Orange County Register OpEd Piece Thinks Attorney’s Fees For Plaintiffs Is The Motivating Cause.                Although we are not endorsing OpEd views in this blog, we will report on ones which have their own take on issues which the writers believe implicate attorney’s fees issues.                The Sunday, July 28, 2024 edition of The Orange

Epic Games Claims Antitrust Fees Not Recoverable, Contractual Breach Claims Not Segregated So As To Be Recoverable, And “Fees On Fees” Not Recoverable Due To A Failure To Meet And Confer Before Filing Of The Substantial Fee Request.             In Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc., Case No. 4-20-CV-05640-YGR-TSH (N.D. Cal., Doc. No 886, dated

That Factor, Combined With Holding Down Expenses, Led To More Profits Also.             Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group, after surveying more than 130 U.S. big firms inclusive of 70 of the top 100 highest grossing U.S. firms, has reported that for 2023, these firms increased billable hourly rates by 8.3% over 2022 rates.  That led