In The News

Amount Has Not Been Disclosed, But Rumors Have it At Hovering Around $150 Million.      Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment, Inc., fresh after its copyright infringement win in a jury trial venued in Santa Ana federal court against Mattel, has moved to recover fees of an unknown amount through recently-filed, redacted motion papers. In support […]

  Court to Dentist: You Owe $80,714 in Fees to SLAPP Defendants in Yelp Lawsuit.      As reported by Donna Domino in a May 17, 2011 post in Practice Management, California dentist Dr. Yvonne Wong was SLAPPed in a defamation suit against a patient’s parents and Yelp.com over negative reviews, following on the heels of

  However, They Spent About $463,000 On Fees And Related Defense Costs.      Just to confirm the high price of litigating these days, here is one about a recent settlement reached in a civil rights case brought against the City of Roseville.      Roseville has agreed to pay $490,000 to settle an anti-gay civil rights

  September 1 Hearing Will Consider Fairness of Settlement and Fee Requests.      In a February 24, 2010 “In the News” post, we reported on a pending $1.25 billion settlement involving allegations of discrimination against black farmers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.      We can now report that U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman (of

Bounce Back from 2009 Declines.      In an April 28, 2011 press release in the on-line version of The American Lawyer, its Am Law Top 100 firms were reported to collectively see a 4% rise is general revenue and profits-per-partner growth of 8.4% in 2010, reversing declines for 2009.      Quinn Emanuel and Alston &

  You Be the Judge!      On this one, because of the many blogs and news items on the issue, we simply report what we read, although most of our information comes from Glenn Kessler’s April 12, 2011 post at “The Fact Checker”.  Mr. Kessler writes for The Washington Post.      Even in the wake

  Recent BTI Consulting Group Survey Shows.      The BTI Consulting Group (out of Wellesley, MA) has reported that 31% of law firms participating in alternative billing arrangements are making higher profits through these arrangements than with the billable hour, in its new survey of firm leaders and corporate counsel. Such participating firms report paying

  $3 Million of Award is Attorney’s Fees Recovery.      As reported by Gretchen Morgenson in an April 23, 2011 article in The New York Times, arbitrators awarded a total of $54.1 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup’s Smith Barney unit in favor of sophisticated investors Gerald D. Hosier, a successful intellectual property

  Madoff.      As reported by Martha Neil in an April 19, 2011 post on the ABA Journal website, Bernie Madoff’s bankruptcy    trustee recently has submitted new numbers in the New York bankruptcy court matter for payment of trustee’s law firm bills. He seeks payment of a $43.2 million bill, with the trustee saying

City Hall Funds May Be Used to Pay for Drainage Improvements Agreed to Under Settlement Agreement.      Over the last couple of years, we have reported on the San Juan Capistrano-Scalzo Family Trust dispute, in which SJC got hit with a $9.4 million judgment inclusive of litigation expenses in a battle over a proposed 31-lot