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Federal District Judge Said Expenses Already Reimbursed And Attorney Does Not Get Fees For Work After He Was Fired.             As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in the April 15, 2021 on-line ABA Journal, a federal district judge in In re General Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litig., Case No. 17-CV-9353 (JMF) (Apr. 13, 2021 order) […]

The Math Did Not Add Up.             As reported recently in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, a BigLaw partner in Massachusetts was suspended for 2 years after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that she had added about $216,000 in fictional billings while at Saul Ewing, even though she did excellent work.  The

Recent Orange County Register Article Reports What Happened.             In a March 21, 2021 article by Roxana Kopetman in The Orange County Register (you can access the online version here), there is a report of the attorney’s fees expended in various disputes between the Orange County Board of Education and School Superintendent Al Mijares, many

For 2021, Net Income For Firms Still Predicted To Go Up.             Although the COVID-19 pandemic certainly has affected the U.S. law industry, some recent reports suggest that its impact was not as bad as feared, according to some articles on the February 3, 2021 on-line edition of the ABA Journal.             U.S. law firms

Proposition 65; Lemon Law; PAGA; Privacy Act; ADA; and Public Nuisance Issues Abounded.             The American Tort Reform Foundation published its 2020-2021 “Judicial Hellholes” report, traditionally reporting the jurisdictions where businesses should fear having to be subject to as far as venue from a plaintiff’s perspective.             California actually slipped to #3, below Philadelphia/Pennsylvania and

That Translates To An Hourly Fee Of $18,500, Almost A Twenty Percent Positive Multiplier.             Here is an interesting one to see how it will pan out.              Quinn Emanuel is seeking 5% of a class action recovery by insurers suing the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for Affordable Care Act