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Lenny Dykstra’s Legal Bills.      Lenny “Nails” Dykstra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in California last Tuesday, July 7, listing some pretty substantial fees owing to several law firms.      The bankruptcy filings show he owes K&L Gates about $1.5 million in fees and owes a little over $342,000 to O’Melveny & Myers. (Mr. […]

Los Angeles County Jury Sides With Plaintiff.      Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith was owed over $1 million by ReadyLink Healthcare, Inc., a nursing registry that provides hospital staffing, as a principal result of Lewis Brisbois' unsuccessful handling of a trade secret trial (as well as other matters) on ReadyLink's behalf. ReadyLink eventually sued for

She Vows to Appeal the Fee Denial.      Third District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Doreen Farr was declared the winner over Steve Pappas, her opponent in last year’s supervisorial race, by 806 votes. Mr. Pappas filed suit to unseat Ms. Farr, but the challenge failed to disqualify allegedly fraudulent votes cast in the November 4,

Great Park Fee Exposure.      In one of our July 1, 2009 posts, we reported on two minority director’s reversal of a trial court decision denying them an award of attorney’s fees under California’s private attorney general statute with respect to a dispute involving the Great Park Corporation (tasked with coordinating development of the “Great

Fee Hearing Now Scheduled for July 16, 2009.      In our past post of June 15, 2009, we mentioned that a fee request hearing was scheduled in Orange County Superior Court on June 25, 2009 to approve a settlement between The Orange County Register and a group of newspaper carriers alleging that they were employees

Update on Transdyn/Cresci Joint Venture Settlement.      On our June 16, 2009 post, we discussed a brewing settlement of a dispute between the City of San Francisco and the Transdyn/Cresci Joint Venture. City was considering a $5.9 million settlement after losing a case and facing a $13 million exposure based on a pending fee motion

  Sanctions Battle Gives Insight Into Requested Rates.      RealNetworks and DVD Copy Control Association (a nonprofit organization composed of certain entertainment studios) are engaged in federal litigation over RealNetworks’ software product that DVD Copy alleges to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because it circumvents the content-scramble system license granted to RealNetworks by DVD

City Faces Potential $13 Million Hit, But Will Consider Recommendation to Settle for $5.9 Million.      City of San Francisco suffered an adverse jury verdict in a contract dispute with Transdyn Controls and Cresci Electric Inc. The jury found that the City improperly withheld $2.3 million in payments, eventually awarding damages of $3.6 million. With