Follow Up to Our September 18, 2010 Post. In our September 18, 2010 post, we reported on a $291,534.04 costs/disbursements award entered against Chris and Lori Coble, who lost a wrongful death lawsuit against Caltrans arising from a truck-car accident taking the lives of their three children. We can report that Caltrans […]
Blasted Legal Fees Unite Civil Rights Attorneys Across the Political Spectrum in Shotgun Marriage After Judge Drops the Hammer on Fee Request in 2nd Amendment Litigation. Mike Scarcella reports in The National Law Journal (April 4, 2011, online edition) that Alan Gura, the high-caliber lawyer behind the Supreme Court’s gun-rights precedent “may lose by
Plaintiff’s Attorneys Urged Using Updated Laffey Matrix on Hourly Rate Determination. Plaintiffs in Heller v. District of Columbia, Case No. 03-CV-1213-EGS (D.D.C.) have requested an award of attorney’s fees totaling $3.13 million in the handgun ban case brought on behalf of Dick Heller and a group of D.C. residents. The request is
Expenses Vary By District, With Personnel Layoffs and Negotiations Contributing To Many of the Increases. Above: Manpower, junior size. Nobody played hookey the day teacher Doris Jordan at Jamison Elementary School explained how every pupil can help win the war. These Roanoke, Virginia youngsters, along with some thirty million other young Americans, are being mobilized
With the Japanese nuclear power plant crisis being upper front in the news, we have a closer to home story to report about nuclear power plants and attorney’s fees. As reported by Susan Luzzaro in a March 22, 2011 story in the San Diego Reader, the City of Chula Vista has been immersed in
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Want $60.8 Million, But DOJ Wants to Limit Fee Recovery to $30.4 Million in Farmer/Rancher Class Action Settlement. As reported by Mike Scarcella in a March 21, 2001 post at The National Law Journal, class action fees are at the storm of a controversy between plaintiffs’ attorneys and Department of Justice
L.A. Superior Court Judge Did Not Reduce Fee Request, But Refused To Award a Multiplier. Much to the chagrin of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant awarded $101,625 in attorney’s fees against it and in favor of L.A. Assistant Head Deputy District Attorney Peter Burke
Reason: Proposed U.S. Legislation to Cap Fee Recovery to Class Counsel. Many of you readers may have seen the very colorful, serene television advertisements urging potentially qualified class members to phone or email in about specifics on the Cobell Indian Land Trust Settlement. Well, everything may not be serene about this settlement given recent
Not the “Mile High” Club, But the $1,000-Plus An Hour Club Nevertheless. Vanessa O’Connell reports, in a February 23, 2011 article in The Wall Street Journal, that leading U.S. attorneys in some big firms or specialty areas are charging as much as $1,250 an hour, even though some pioneering attorneys had
Big Bankruptcies Result in Big Legal Fees for Debtor/Committee Counsel. As reported by Sheri Qualters in a February 21, 2011 post on The National Law Journal (on-line version), counsel representing debtors/trustee and unsecured creditor committees in big bankruptcy cases must be doing quite well financially. She reports that the fees for attorneys and
