In our December 30, 2011 post, we reported on the Delaware Chancery Court’s award of $304 million in fees to attorneys representing Southern Cooper in the Grupo Mexico minority shareholder litigation. Well, as updated in an August 28, 2012 post on mineweb.com, the Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed the award, which may be […]
We would like to thank the National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) blog for providing us with information to blog on breaking developments in the attorney’s fees area. SHIELD Act Introduced in House of Representatives to Discourage Patent Troll Litigation. As it stands now, attorney’s fees can be awarded in patent
Divorce “Boondoggle” Likely Will Not End Until Sometime in 2013. As reported today by Timothy Mangan in the “People” section of The Orange County Register, Kim Kardashian’s attorney told a judge in the Kris Humphries divorce action that her firm had already spent $250,000 on the case in the wake of Mr. Humphries’
Owner Rejected $100,000 Settlement Offer from City, But Only Garnered $2 in Damages and $39,500 in Fees/Other Costs. This one was too much fun to pass on, involving Mr. Bob Davis’ battle with Seattle, as reported by Rick Anderson in an August 10, 2012 post in seattleweekly.com. Mr. Davis, a would-be strip
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%
