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In The News . . . . Large Pharmaceutical Company Saves $32.6 Million In Fees Under Alternative Billing Arrangements, Britney Spears Scores Some Fee Recoveries In Some Restraining Order Battles, And Weil Gotshal Portends To Reap $430 Million-Plus In Lehman

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  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 […]

In The News . . . . E.D. La. Federal Judge Caps Fee Recovery From BP Settlement To 25% For Each Claimant Plus “Reasonable Costs”

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     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

In The News . . . . Righthaven Suffers More Adverse Attorney’s Fees And Has Essentially Shut Down

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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.     

In The News . . . . 10th Circuit Reverses Civil Rights Fee Award Of $8,000 Based On Terse Explanatory Opinion By District Judge And Occupy Fresno Gains $37,500 In Forma Pauperis Fees In Settling Constitutional Challenges to Fresno County Ordinance Rules A

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  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

In The News . . . A Plethora Of Recent Class Action Fee Awards And Irwindale City Council Refuses to Pay Fees In Councilman’s Embezzlement Trial

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  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

In The News . . . . Malpractice Cases On The Rise, Lots Of Mergers/Major U.S. Firm Partnership Profits Up, And Alternative Billing Arrangements Increase

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       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

Class Actions/Special Fee Shifting Statute/In The News . . . . $1,468,380 In Attorney’s Fees Awarded Against Losing 14 Named Class Members In California Automobile Sales Finance Act Case

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, In The News

       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

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