In The News

First Amendment Won Out In This One.             According to an article in the May 20, 2021 issue of The Orange County Register (online version here), Fullerton City’s Council last week voted to settle a lawsuit it filed against two bloggers for publishing certain information which the City claimed was stolen (later found out not

Much Of That Overhead Was Law Firm And Claim Administration Expenses.             In a May 7, 2021 article in The Orange County Register, KQED News has reported that 90% the funds from a trust set up to compensate victims in the Camp/Paradise fires, in its first year of operations, was spent on overhead, including attorneys,

COVID-19, PAGA, And ADA Suits Cited, With Report Finding That Each California Resident Pays A “Tort Tax” Of Over $574 Per Person.             Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA), based on a recent 2021 report by John Durham & Associates entitled “The Impact of Tort Costs and the Potential Economic Benefits of Tort Reform in California,”

Federal District Judge Said Expenses Already Reimbursed And Attorney Does Not Get Fees For Work After He Was Fired.             As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in the April 15, 2021 on-line ABA Journal, a federal district judge in In re General Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litig., Case No. 17-CV-9353 (JMF) (Apr. 13, 2021 order)

The Math Did Not Add Up.             As reported recently in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, a BigLaw partner in Massachusetts was suspended for 2 years after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that she had added about $216,000 in fictional billings while at Saul Ewing, even though she did excellent work.  The

Recent Orange County Register Article Reports What Happened.             In a March 21, 2021 article by Roxana Kopetman in The Orange County Register (you can access the online version here), there is a report of the attorney’s fees expended in various disputes between the Orange County Board of Education and School Superintendent Al Mijares, many