Fixing Tooth: Multiple Reasons Justified Deductions and Reductions in Fee Request. On remand from the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer concluded that she had “stopped too short” on her review of plaintiffs’ class action’s attorneys billings, determining that $283,000 was a reasonable fee award (quite a bit downward from her original […]
Award Represented a 3.2 Multiplier. In McKenzie v. Federal Express Corporation, U.S.D.C., C.D. Cal. Case No. CV 10-02420 GAF (PLAx) (Doc. No. 139 July 2, 2012), U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess (appropriate last name for this post) awarded plaintiffs’ class counsel $2,062,500 in attorney’s fees in a California Labor Code wage/hour case,
The Ninth Circuit in the Bluetooth decision (654 F.3d 935) reversed a prior attorney’s fees award to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a class action case, finding the district court failed to double check the lodestar amount against the percentage of recovery method. Bluetooth has been cited many times, and apparently played a big role
Nebraska Jury Found Additional Requested Appellate Work Was Excluded From Attorneys’ Agreement on Fee Division for Nebraska Counsel Efforts. As reported on July 31, 2012 by Martha Neil in The American Bar Association Journal, a Lancaster County, Nebraska jury rebuffed a local Nebraska attorney’s attempt to obtain $562,500 more for appellate work based
State Law, Not Federal Law, Should Have Governed Fee Inquiry. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a Boston federal judge’s award of around $30 million in attorney’s fees to plaintiffs’ lawyers in multidistrict litigation over an alleged oil sludge defect in certain Volkswagen cars. The basis for the
READ ALL ABOUT IT AT CAL ATTORNEY’S FEES ! New York Billing Rates for Associates Go Up 7.5% From 2011, Compared to Only 3.4% For Partners and 3.6% For Other Counsel. Recently, a Valeo Partners report has shown that over the past year, billing rates for New York associates have risen by 7.5%
GlaxoSmithKline Gets Bang for the Buck in Alternative Billing Arrangements. As reported in a July 5, 2012 article in The American Bar Association Journal, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) saved tens of millions through value-based, non-hourly billing arrangements. By the end of 2011, 68% of GSK’s legal spending was predicated on alternative fee billing
Gifts, Thank You Notes, Flowers, and Concert Tickets No Substitute For Ms. Love’s Monetary Payments. Recent posts at TMZ and Rolling Stone tell us that Courtney Love is being sued in Los Angeles by Keith A. Fink & Associates for $466,029.41 in unpaid legal fees for 10 months of intensive work in 2009.
Above: Student nurses’ “capping”ceremony. 1943. Library of Congress. Photographer: Ann Rosener (1914-2012). As reported by Reuters in a post on Friday, June 15, 2012, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana (in New Orleans) last month gave preliminary approval to a $7.8 billion settlement that BP reached to resolve
Yet Again, No Haven for Righthaven Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas copyright infringement lawsuit filer, looks like it has essentially shut down amid numerous legal setbacks, after several judges have found that it had faulty copyright assignments or its infringement suits against mainly website operators/media defendants were protected by the fair use doctrine.
