Objection Centers on Plaintiffs’ Counsel Allegedly Selling Out For Fees. As reported both in The Daily Journal and ABA Journal (on-line version), Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Curt of Appeals, and his wife, Marcy Tiffany, filed objections to a proposed settlement in a class action alleging defects in […]
In an online ABA Journal article by Debra Cassens Weiss, University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, after a study of certain ABA-accredited U.S. law school budgets, estimates that 80-85% are losing money in the present fiscal year!
$527 Million of the Award Was Prejudgment Interest/Attorney’s Fees. In March 2011, Starbucks prematurely ended a contract with Kraft Foods which was allowing the food company to sell bagged Starbucks coffee in grocery stores. Earlier, Kraft rejected Starbucks’ $750 million offer to end the arrangement. The matter went to arbitration, with Starbucks countering
Some Winners Are Predictable, Some Might Surprise You. Princeton Review publishes a yearly review ranking top law schools in 11 categories, based on information gathered from 185,000 students at 169 U.S. law schools The top five law schools for careers are: (1) Columbia (2) Chicago (3) Pennsylvania (4)
As reported by Martha Neil in her September 25, 2013 post in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, plaintiffs’ lawyer Terry Silva was awarded $50,418.75 in attorney’s fees and costs (including $1,743.75 for “fees on fees”) in a successful civil rights suit she and other plaintiffs pursed since 2010 over the wrongful
National Jurist List of Best-Value Private Law Schools — 2012 Graduates. According to a September 9, 2013 post by Debra Cassens Weiss in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, National Jurist has announced its list of top best-value private law schools, in order of priority and with assigned “grades” in relation to
As reported in a September 6, 2013 post at Huff Post Politics, a federal judge has ordered 4 Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib to pay over $14,000 in routine court costs after losing a case against defense contractor CACI, which obtained dismissal of the federal case against it based on immunity grounds. (CACI
Ninth Circuit Affirms Fee Award to NVIDIA Class Counsel. In Nakash v. NVIDIA Corp., Case No. 11-15186 (9th Cir. Sept. 4, 2013) (not for publication; per curiam), a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a $13 million fee award to plaintiffs’ class action counsel in a defective computer component case. In a
Orange County Water District North Basis and South Basis Lawsuits. Andrew Galvin, in a comprehensive article in the September 6, 2013 edition of The Orange County Register, details the Orange County Water District’s lawsuits–called the “north basin” suit and “south basin” suits–brought to obtain money to remediate contamination in certain groundwater acquifers in
A lot of press was generated about George Zimmerman’s criminal case, where he was acquitted last month of the charge he murdered Trayvon Martin. Now, Mr. Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara has aired his view that Florida should pay all of Mr. Zimmerman’s estimated $2 millon in defense fees. As a start, Mr. O’Mara
