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.
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
