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In The News . . . . Pharrell/Robin Thicke Might Not Owe Attorney’s Fees For Losing “Blurred Lines” Copyright Case And Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Issues Interesting Decision On Attorney’s Fees Recoupment By Counsel Representing

Cases: Celebrities, In The News

  Pharrell and Thicke Tentative Fee Decision.      On March 14, 2016, U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt (C.D. Cal.) orally announced a tentative decision that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke should not have to pay Marvin Gaye’s family $3.5 million in legal fees despite the fact they lost a copyright infringement case. The district […]

In The News . . . . LASC Judge Terry Green Awards $112,000 In SLAPP Fees To Colleen Brown In Charney Defamation Action

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  Public Filings Had Sext-Laden Submissions.     In a case which can only be described as entertaining (among other things, apparently involving sext-laden messages), Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Terry A. Green has granted defendant Colleen Brown, American Apparel chair, $112,000 out of a requested $167,315 in attorney’s fees for successfully SLAPPing former founder

In The News . . . . BigLaw Top Partners Billing Close To $1,500 Per Hour And Orange County Superior Court Judge Linda Marks Tells Newport Beach To Negotiate Fee Award With Prevailing California Public Records Act Plaintiff

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  Some Lawyers May Charge As Much As $2,000/Hour.     Martha Neil, in an ABA Journal online article posted February 8, 2016, reports that some top partners at BigLaw firms are now billing at rates close to $1,500 per hour.  Many of these rates come from large firms billing in high profile Chapter 11 bankruptcy

In The News . . . . ADA Class Action Settlement With City Of Los Angeles Gains Preliminary Approval

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Class Actions, In The News

  $1.367 Million Expenditures Over Thirty Years On Public Areas, With $13.3 Million In Fees And $1.7 Million To Class Counsel.     On February 9, 2016, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of the Central District of California gave preliminary approval to a substantial American with Disabilities Act class action settlement by which the City

News . . . . LA County Pays Attorneys $59 Million In Fees/Costs In 2014-2015 And Two District Judges Assess “Exceptional” Patent Fee-Shifting Awards Against Unsuccessful Patent Plaintiffs

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, In The News

  L.A. County Attorney Payment Statistics Are Out For 2014-2015.     For 2014-2015, Los Angeles County paid $59 million for attorney’s fees and costs to both in-house and outside counsel, a 7% increase from the prior year.  For matters going to trial, the County won 64% of the time, although many cases were settled.  The

In The News . . . . Antitrust Class Action Attorneys Reap $38.2 Million In Cathode Ray Tube Litigation

Cases: Class Actions, In The News

  30% of Recovery Was Fair.       Based on general news reports, class action counsel in Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litig., No. 3:07-cv-05944 (N.D. Cal.) were awarded $38.2 million in attorney’s fees in settlement of an antitrust class action involving allegations of a price-fixing conspiracy for cathode ray tubes. The fee award was around 30%

In The News . . . . Lead Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Receive Close To $12 Million In Student Athlete Likeness Class Action Against Electronic Arts and NCAA

Cases: Multipliers, In The News

                         Dartmouth Football Team, 1901. 1.7 Multiplier Awarded By N.D. Cal. District Judge.       On December 10, 2015, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkens of the Northern District of California awarded lead plaintiffs’ counsel almost $12 million in fees for work leading to the settlements in a class action case brought by student athletes

In The News . . . . Class Counsel Garners $74 Million Fees/Costs In JP Morgan Chase Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlement And Eleventh Circuit Decision Holds Percentage-Of-Fund Analysis Applies To Claims-Made Class Action Settlement Regardless Of Actual P

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Common Fund, In The News

  Class Counsel Asked For $100.8 Million In Fees/Expenses But Were Awarded “Only” $74 Million.     On December 4, 2015, a New York federal district judge awarded class counsel in the JP Morgan Chase mortgage-backed securities class action about $74 million in fees and costs based on a $388 million settlement.  This was less than

In The News . . . . T.V. Executive Consultant on Survivor Beats Back Claims That He Acted As Attorney Such That A Trial Looms Against Former Partner

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  T.V. Executive Claims He Was “Stiffed” For $14 Million.     In Los Angeles County Superior Court, there is quite a battle going on between a T.V. executive and the Survivor mastermind’s former partner relating to compensation allegedly owed in connection with the T.V. Survivor series.     Briefly told, plaintiff T.V. executive sued the defendant

In The News . . . . Conrad Riggs’ Cloudbreak Entertainment Inc. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy On Eve Of Layne Britton Trial

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  Bankruptcy Filing Has Postponed Trial Until February 10, 2016.     We recently posted on the L.A. County Superior Court case where Layne Britton has sued Survivor co-creator Conrad Riggs and his business Cloudbreak Entertainment Inc. for $14 million in unpaid consulting fees, with Riggs losing the argument that the fees were incurred for legal

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