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A “Mass Joinder” Lawsuit Is Not the Same as a “Class Action” Lawsuit.      In our March 11, 2010 post, we explored California attorney ethical prohibitions against taking advance fees for residential loan modification services, attempting to protect vulnerable homeowners from doing whatever they need to prevent impending foreclosures during the on-going economic recession. We […]

  Lions, and Tigers, and Bears — Oh My!      Well, this one will get all of us engrossed, or should.      Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried (Fischbacher) and Roy (Horn) have been awarded $37,415 in attorney’s fees and court costs when U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt determined that a sexual harassment suit brought against them

  Fee Awards Have Been Rejected or Reduced in Recent String of Cases.      As reported by Sheri Qualters in a September 19, 2011 post at The National Law Journal, Delaware Chancery judges are putting shareholder derivative plaintiffs’ fee requests “under the microscope” in recent cases challenging corporate deals where the shareholders reap minimal benefits

. . .  May Top $35 Million      Boy, oh boy, talk about attorney’s fees. We all have been following the news of the McCourt divorce battle, the family law judge’s decision that the team was not just Frank’s, the bankruptcy, and the problems plaguing the L.A. Dodgers (which, nonetheless, have been doing better lately

Update from our 11/24/10 Post on Crews v. City of Willows.      In our November 24, 2010 post, we discussed Crews v. City of Willows, a Third District decision which affirmed a rejection of newspaperman Tim Crews’ attempt to obtain attorney’s fees against the City of Willows under a California Publics Record Act proceeding. Mr.

       As reported in a couple of articles in the August 2011 California Lawyer, we see how the recent economic downturn has affected fee arrangements and law firm employment in California.      Looks like nonhourly billing arrangements are on the increase in California. Nonhourly fee arrangements have increased by a percentage of 43% of

  Satellite Insurance Litigation is Heating Up, With 4 Insurers Wanting to Get $80 Million of the $141 Million Fees/Costs Award to MGA.      In a case presenting an “endless story,” we report on the next piece of the evolving saga in the MGA Entertainment-Mattel case, one in which U.S. District Judge David O. Carter