In The News

  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

  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

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