Goodman Forecast to Curtain Attorney’s Fees In a March 15, 2010 article “Curtailing Attorneys’ Fees” by Harry I. Price (a Los Altos real estate attorney) published in The Recorder, Mr. Price predicts that Goodman v. Lozano—a recent California Supreme Court decision examined in our February 5, 2010 post—“will change how litigants sift and […]
As reported by Fred Swegles in “Law on fees could help or hurt San Clemente” (an article published in the March 12, 2010 The Orange County Register), San Clemente, CA is looking to update a local law to force the losing party in a code enforcement action to pay attorney’s fees. Based on
Co-contributor Mike Has A Matthew Bender Post on New Statutes Relating to Same. The California Attorney General and California State Bar are cracking down on attorneys who collect advance fees for residential loan modification services. The California Bar Journal is replete with several articles and announcements in the last few editions indicating that the
$1.25 Billion Settlement Yields Potential Fee Recovery of 4 to 7 % The U.S. Government announced a tentative $1.25 billion ($1,250,000,000) settlement to resolve a racial discrimination action by black farmers who were denied access to USDA loan programs and denied participation in an earlier class action settlement. Although still subject to congressional authorization
School District Would Hand the Property Back. To show you how expensive modern litigation happens to be, take the case of the Natomas Unified School District. (Natomas is one of the remaining undeveloped communities in the northwest Sacramento, CA area.) A grand jury report in May 2009 alleged that the District paid
Nonconflicted Attorneys Get Award of Fees; Conflicted Attorneys Do Receive Reimbursement of Over $1.2 Million in Expenses. In our April 26, 2009 post, we reported on Rodriguez v. West Publishing Co., 563 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2009), where class representative incentive agreements creating conflicts of interests required reconsideration of fee awards to both
As reported by Sean Emery in “Irvine legal fees in development fight run $1.3 million” (available for reading in the February 6, 2010 edition of The Orange County Register), the City of Irvine has incurred about $1.3 million in various legal fights over the Irvine Business Complex “vision plan”—an urban revitalization project near the
Tagged.com Wins Large Default Judgment Against Spammer, Plus Attorney’s Fees. Social networker Tagged.com has won a $151,975 default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who is alleged to have spammed thousands of Tagged members with unsolicited links to an adult dating website. A district judge in the Northern District of California ordered the default judgment, as
$1,280,000 of Settlement is Attorney’s Fees and Litigation Costs. As reported by Jennifer Muir in a January 22, 2010 article in The Orange County Register (“Shooting by deputies gets costlier”), Orange County supervisors have approved a nearly $1.6 million settlement in a case involving deputies who allegedly shot a San Juan Capistrano man with
The Orange County Bar Association’s Professionalism and Ethics Committee has, in the January 2010 issue of the Orange County Lawyer, published its “2009 Ethics Round-Up” that explores the following fee issues: Fee arbitration provisions in attorney-client retainer letters, discussing Schatz v. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, 45 Cal.4th 557 (2009) [contractual arbitration
