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. […]
First Amendment Prevailing Plaintiff Entitled to More Than $8,000, Although Jury Verdict Slight, But Not Requested $503,000 Given He Lost Several Claims. John Ingold, in a June 8, 2012 post on denverpost.com, tells about a recent Tenth Circuit decision of interest in the fee award area. In Zinna v. Congrove, No. 10-1482
N.J. District Judge Awards Firm $2.3 Million In Fees In Eating Disorder Insurance Coverage Case. The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA), which has an excellent blog website, has reported on some recent class action fee recoveries. The first one is an eating disorder insurance coverage class action. A New Jersey
Co-contributor Mike’s father-in-law Tom Basehart keeps his eye in the news on articles of interest for the blog. So, with our thanks to him, here are some gems culled from the recent clippings. Malpractice Trends: Up. As reported in a February 6, 2012 article in The Wall Street Journal, several legal malpractice
Here is an interesting one you do not see too often–named class members having to pay attorney’s fees to the winning defendant. On May 9, 2012, MMD Newswire posted that Raceway Ford, Inc. was awarded $1,468,380 in attorney’s fees plus costs as against 14 named class members, jointly and severally, in an
. . . And $20,000/Month In Child Support For Sharing Time With Daughter Nahla As reported by Nancy Dillon in a May 4, 2012 post in the NYDailyNews.com, Halle Berry’s baby daddy Gabriel Aubry requested a Los Angeles judge to award him $500,000 in attorney’s fees and $20,000 in monthly child support in proceedings
As reported in a May 1, 2012 American Bar Association Journal post by Debra Cassens Weiss, more and more top U.S. firms, especially in the plaintiff area, are turning to litigation finance companies to help finance cases for their clients (mainly involving financing of fees and costs). For example, Burford Capital–one of the
We thank The Blog of Legal Times for pointing us to a recent article in The National Law Journal on a fees/costs ruling in an Idaho federal case. There, an Idaho U.S. magistrate judge recently ruled that Department of Justice would pay $2.24 million in legal fees and costs to plaintiffs’ attorneys
On April 19, 2012, the Los Angeles Times had some interesting data compilations showing the annual totals, percentage of city operating/redevelopment budgets, and per capita spending on city attorneys for the 2005-2010 budgets. Los Angeles was the winner in spending: about $133 million per year spent on the City Attorney, but this
TyMetrix Legal Analytics-Corporate Executive Board Recent Study So Shows. As reported in an April 16, 2012 post by Leigh Jones on Thomson Reuters News & Insight, a recent study analyzing billing data from about 120,000 attorneys (at 4,000 law firms) found that overall rates have increased by more than 4% since 2009, compared
