In The News

       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

       We thank an April 5, 2012 article in the Las Vegas Sun for reporting that the Nevada Supreme Court recently affirmed a district judge’s cutting in half a fees/costs request in favor of two attorneys–from the $130,000 request to an actual award of $63,466–who obtained a $238,000 settlement for a brain-dead young girl

  $1.5 Million in Fees Is the Settlement Payout Number to Plaintiff’s Counsel.      We have reported on this before, but an April 3, 2012 post on The Blog of Legal Times informs us that Plaintiff’s counsel has reached a settlement in a landmark D.C. gun case that went all the way to the U.S.

  Three Groups of Attorneys Gain Award, But No Multiplier Awarded.      Salvador Hernandez reports, in a March 7, 2012 article in The Orange County Register, that U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins (C.D. Cal.) awarded more than $3.2 million in attorney’s fees and expenses to three groups of attorneys who successfully sued Orange County to

  Evanston May Owe $96 Million of $175 Million Spent By MGA In Defense Of Mattel Litigation, According to MGA.      As reported by Amanda Bronstad in a February 28, 2012 post in The National Law Journal, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter (C.D. Cal.) ordered, via pretrial motions on February 24, 2012, Evanston Insurance

       You gotta love this one.      According to TMZ, Bill Nye–the “Science Guy”–is dragging his ex-squeeze, Blair Tindall, into court for supposedly acting as a crazy stalker and then causing him to incur $57,000 in attorney’s fees for enforcing a prior harassment protective order.      The purported facts are this: Mr. Nye claimed

  Missouri Legislature Proposal Draws Ire from Pro-American Rule Advocate.      Brett Emison, in a February 20, 2012 post at injuryboard.com, is steaming mad about a Missouri bill pending to change “American rule” fee-shifting in personal injury cases for purposes of discouraging frivolous suits. Even though Mo. Rev. Stat. § 514.205 seems to already have

  $10.6 Million Was Total Tab to the County Even Though Suit Could Have Settled for $500,000 At Some Junctures.      In our December 19, 2010 post (which also references earlier posts), we reported on a very nice win by attorney Shawn McMillan and his legal team in a civil rights case brought by Deanna

  $200,000 in Fees is the Approximate Tally.      As reported by Jim Sanders in a February 15, 2012 article in The Orange County Register, the state Assembly has spent close to $200,000 in a California Public Records Act case in an effort to fight releasing member budgets allocating millions in public funds. Eventually, Sacramento