Top 350 Firms’ 2012 Growth Down From 1.7% Growth in 2011. As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in her June 11, 2013 post in The ABA Journal, the National Law Journal reports that the top 250 U.S. law firms grew on the whole 1.1% in 2012, down from 1.7% growth in 2011. […]
As reported in an updated June 12, 2013 post by The Salt Lake Tribune, Penn State’s legal bills relating to the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal have really piled up, reaching $45.8 million as of the end of March 2013–if consulting work/related expenses are factored in. Crowd at Navy, Penn State Football game. 1922.
Wittich v. O’Connell, No. DA 12-0199 (Montana Supreme Court May 7, 2013) shows the dangers existent when a contract has a fees clause. There, a Montana couple disputed $93.99 of an earlier default $3,000 judgment obtained by former attorneys representing them, although satisfying the balance. The firm apparently chose to expend fees in
As reported by Andrew Galvin in a May 23, 2013 article in The Orange County Register, Orange County is paying nearly $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by former Sheriff’s Lieutenant Bill Hunt, who was demoted to patrol duty after he lost an election to then-Sheriff Mike Carona in 2006. This case
Skechers Class Action. A federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky approved a $40 million class action settlement on May 13, 2013 involving more than 520,000 claims and more than 70 lawsuits nationwide over allegations that Skechers USA made unfounded ad claims about its footwear. The class action attorneys will split up $5 million in
25% Percentage of Recovery Is the Bottom Line Here. As reported by Teri Sforza in an April 29, 2013 article in The Orange County Register, attorneys representing the People of the State of California in a case against Toyota over alleged sudden-acceleration defect misrepresentations/omissions have forged a settlement of $16 million. Of that,
Martha Nell, in an April 22, 2013 post in the ABA Journal, summarizes an interesting report from Florida’s Sun-Sentinel. Here is what she had to say on how attorneys are responding to noncash alternatives for payment of owed fees/expenses. Attorneys told the Florida newspaper they’ve taken cars (including a Rolls Royce and
About $1 Million in Fees Awarded in Bullet Train Settlement. Although the bullet train proposal in California has generated a lot of controversy, Juliet Williams of the AP, in an April 19, 2013 article in The Orange County Register, reports that a Sacramento County Superior Court approved a settlement of a challenge from
Seattle Civil Rights Case — $1 Verdict; $92,000 In Fees Affirmed. In Rutherford v. Seattle Police Dept./Chin, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $1 jury verdict in favor of Plaintiff in a civil rights case where a man was held too long at gunpoint for a minor traffic infraction by Seattle
As reported by Matt Fountain in a recent New Times post, the San Luis Obispo City Council has agreed to approve payment of $133,880 to some local attorneys who successfully represented nearly 100 homeless people charged with sleeping in their vehicles. A local superior court judge had ruled that the attorneys were entitled
