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  $125 Million Won, But $58 Million In Legal Expenses Taken Away.     Aerial view of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County, California, May 26, 2012. Author: Jelson25. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.       Southern California Edison apparently commenced an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration to see if could exceed […]

Mr. Lincoln’s Inauguration.   Photograph shows participants and crowd at the first inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Lincoln is standing under the wood canopy, at the front, midway between the left and center posts. His face is in shadow but the white shirt front is visible. (Source: Ostendorf, p.

               Potato in three forms.  Ann Rosener, photographer.  Feb. 1943.  Library of Congress. Will Idaho Losers Spudder With Fear?      Our friend, appellate specialist Ben Shatz at Manatt, informs us:  Betsy Z. Russell of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington has an article that begins, "The Idaho Supreme Court has launched the state’s entire court system

  Requested Amount Is 1.7% Of $10 Billion Settlement Fund.     Recently, lead counsel for the class in the Volkswagen emissions case, an MDL case assigned to U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in the N.D. Cal., announced that class counsel will be requesting $175 million in attorney’s fees from the district court, which is about

  Supply, Demand, Price, And Profit.     Wikipedia.  Author:  Mtfernandes.   Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license..       Thomson Reuters, in an October 2016 Peer Monitor Special Report entitled “Does Slower Rate Growth Increase Revenues?,” suggests that firms adopting smaller hourly rate increases have experienced better demand and revenue growth than firms pushing higher hourly

  33% Of Settlement Recovery Deemed Far By C.D. Cal. District Judge.     This post should bring a smile to everyone.  A litigant settling a copyright case resulting in the famous “Happy Birthday To You” song becoming part of the public domain requested attorney’s fees after reaching a $14 million settlement.  The request was for

  Jewel v. Boxer’s Continued Viability Is Squarely Under Consideration.      In our June 14, 2014 post, we discussed U.S. District Judge Breyer’s decision in In the Matter of Heller Ehrman LLP, in which he determined that a dissolved law firm did not have a property interest in its pending hourly matters at a dissolution