Employments Issues Made Up Over Half the Cases. In an interesting article in the February 16, 2011 edition of The Sacramento Bee, Brad Branan reports that Sacramento County saw its legal costs rise 28% to $14 million in the last fiscal year. The reason for this climb was higher claim payments, with […]
L.A. Superior Court Judge Orders Opponent to Return Substantial Fees/Costs He Had Paid Before Appellate Court Reversal. In our September 9, 2010 post on Cussler v. Crusader Entertainment, we described the litigation saga between Alhambra-born adventure writer Clive Cussler and Crusader Entertainment (now Bristol Bay Productions) over the 2005 movie flop “Sahara.” The Second
CT TyMetrix/Corporate Executive Board Study Shows Client Pay More For Larger Firms and Southern City Rates Have Risen the Highest. CT TyMetrix, a provider of online law department analysis, and the Corporate Executive Board, which offers similar advice to corporations, have come up with a study entitled “The 2010 Real Rate Report,” based on
Fees Paid in Resolving Wrongful Termination Suit. As reported by Paul Thissen of the Contra Costa Times in a February 9, 2011 post on the online version of The Mercury News, City of Concord has agreed to pay a $188,500 settlement to former custodial supervisor Kevin Parks in lieu of reinstating him to
Settlement Will Be the Subject of an Upcoming Hearing. As reported by Wendy Fry in a February 3, 2011 post in the online version of The San Diego Union-Tribune, the City of San Diego has agreed to settle a lawsuit over emergency dredging in the Tijuana River Valley by the nonprofit group San Diegans
Winner Apparently Waived Attorney’s Fees But City Agreed to Pay for Storm Drain Improvement. [Above: Storm Drain Improvement. Two men pour liquor into storm drain. 1921. Library of Congress.] In our October 3, 2010 post, we summarized the results of a lawsuit eventually concluding in a substantial compensatory damages judgment and attorney’s fees
Substantial Fee Award Sought In $3.4 Billion Class Action Settlement. As reported in a February 2, 2011 post in law.com by Mike Scarcella, Washington lawyer Dennis Gingold and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, who settled a class action alleging the government mismanaged billions of dollars held in trust flowing from the use of Indian
Orange County Superior Court Awards Are Being Appealed to Fourth District, Division 3. As reported by Erika I. Ritchie in an article in the February 2, 2011 edition of The Orange County Register, Lake Forest BodyCentre–a massage parlor shut down by the City of Lake Forest–was hit with certain adverse awards in favor of
Lawyers Requesting Over $1.5 Million More in Gibson Dissolution Proceeding. As reported in a January 27, 2011 post by the TMZ staff, Oksana Grigorieva’s lawyers are asking Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon–the same judge who heard the McCourt case–to order Mel Gibson to pay substantial attorney’s fees on top of $500,000
Judge Kalin Ruled Request Can Be Renewed Later. As reported in a January 25, 2011 post by Richard Winton in the Los Angeles Times online version, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Kalin has rejected, for now, Mayor Oscar Hernandez’s request to have legal expenses picked up in his defense of the
