City Could Have Settled Early On For $32,500 Or $30,000. Our next post explores an incredible case in North Carolina involving a North Carolina couple, the Wilkes, who sued the City of Boiling Spring Lakes in inverse condemnation for raising the level of a lake and taking away about 1,200 square feet of the […]
This Amount Awarded Even Though District Judge Chided Them For Vitriolic Fee Requests. We can report that a Louisiana federal district judge has given approval to a $111.4 million fees/expenses award to class counsel in the Chinese Drywall MDL litigation settlement, even though chiding class attorneys for “vitriolic” fee requests. If you want to
Lack Of Exposure To Consequences Presents A Moral Hazard. The Hon. Alex Kozinski, retired from the Ninth Circuit, and now an expert on moral hazard, has written an intriguing article in today's Friday, January 25, 2019 Wall Street Journal. The article is entitled, "How a Pointless Lawsuit Took Off." The lawsuit
He Advocates “Nudges” For Efficient Litigation Given That 40% Of I/C Judges’ Cases Involve Pro-Plaintiff Prevailing Party Statutes; He Also Advocates A Meet And Confer Requirement For Motions To Tax Costs. In an interesting article by sitting Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard L. Fruin, Jr. in the January 8, 2019 edition of
However, These Same Departments Are Taking Steps To Assimilate More Services In-House, Including Increased Expenses On Artificial Intelligence Technology. HBR Consulting provides various surveys, including several with corporate law departments, comprised of 250 organizations participating across 22 industries (with 65% of the survey participants being in Fortune 500 companies). We can now report on
Ninth Circuit Has Not Taken Action Yet. As reported by Jeff McDonald in a November 15, 2018 post in a local San Diego newspaper, the California Public Utilities Commission is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to not dismiss an appeal contesting a settlement reached between certain parties contesting the amount that consumers
Texas Anti-SLAPP Motion Is The Basis For The Fee Recovery. We can tell you that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero of the Central District of California decided to grant an anti-SLAPP motion in favor of now President Donald Trump in the defamation case brought against him by Stormy Daniels. He primarily found that
This Amount Was Reduction From $20 Million In Fees Expended And A Slice From The EAJA Lodestar Of $4.515 Million. Who says that class actions cannot have some happy endings in terms of the fee recoveries being reduced responsibly in public interest cases? The fee recovery result in Vietnam Veterans of America v. CIA,
NALFA and LAW360 Dub The Results As Surprising. Clio, a Canadian company that provides cloud-based practice management for firms, has presented a recent Legal Trends Report released Thursday last week with some very interesting findings, which some websites (NALFA and Law36) find to be surprising—as do we. Based on a survey of 70,000
Total May Soar To $34.5 Million Based On Some “Pipeline” Contracts to Law Firms As reported by Crain’s Detroit Business in a September 2, 2018 post, the State of Michigan already has spent $26.5 million in fees paid to private law firms in civil and criminal cases arising out of the Flint, Michigan water crisis.
