Demand And Revenue Is Also Up. Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group's Q1 2018 Quarterly Flash Report, which provides an overview of current financial trends in the legal industry, based on data collected through our Quarterly Flash survey of 179 law firms (80 Am Law 100 firms, 47 Second Hundred firms and 52 niche/boutique […]
County Settled With Sheriff’s Widow For $253,000, With Fee Award Greatly Eclipsing The Compensatory Compromise. As reported by The Modesto Bee and NALFA’s New Blog recently, Dennis Wallace was a sheriff’s deputy in Stanislaus County who was idled two years without pay. He sued Stanislaus County on discrimination claims, even though the suit had
District Judge Appointed Special Master Because She Was Not Impressed That 53 Law Firms Were Involved. Obviously, the Anthem data breach generated a lot of news as well as a class action filed in the Northern District of California federal court, assigned to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. A tentative settlement for $115 million
Dispute Related To Long-Standing CEQA Dispute Resulting In Favorable California Supreme Court Decision To Conservancy. We received an email from John McClendon, a principal with Irvine’s Leibold McClendon & Mann, who was lead counsel in environmental group Banning Ranch Conservancy’s CEQA dispute with the City of Newport Beach and Newport Banning Ranch LLC over
Some Local Media Buzz Aroused By This Bill. Our Mission Statement on this blog starts this way: “As one appellate jurist wisely observed, ‘All too often attorney fees become the tail that wags the dog in litigation.’ Deane Gardenhome Assn. v. Dentkas, 13 Cal.App.4th 1394, 1399 (1993).” Although this observation occurred in an HOA –
Unsuccessful Fraud Suit Arose Out of Beats’ $3.2 Billion Sale To Apple. This post actually is an update to the result reached in Monster, LLC v. Superior Court, 12 Cal.App.5th 1214 (2d Dist., Div. 7 June 21, 2017) [our No. 14 Top Decision of 2017, discussed in our recent December 24, 2017 post].
This Is The Third Time California Was So Ranked Since 2012. According to an Editorial in the October 8, 2017 edition of The Orange County Register, California ranked 47th out of the 50 states in terms of overall fairness and reasonableness of its liability system based on a survey by the U.S. Chamber Institute
$42,500 In Fees And $2,842 In Costs Was The Total Award. According to a recent Associated Press article, a California state court judge earlier this year ordered U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to pay $42,500 in attorney’s fees and $2,842 in costs for obtaining dismissal through a SLAPP motion of Rep. Issa’s defamation action against
Combined Fees/Costs In 2.0 And 3.0 Liter Class Actions Total $300 Million. On Friday, July 21, 2017, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the N.D. of California federal district court approved an award of attorney’s fee and expenses to class counsel as part of the Volkswagen 3.0-liter excess emissions class action settlement. The
Tax Revenues Likely Insufficient And Insurance Coverage Looks Like It Will Be Disputed/Might Be Insufficient To Cover Total Loss. Joe Duggan who works in the Lincoln, Nebraska bureau of The World-Herald, wrote a recent post about a $28 million jury verdict which a Gage County, Nebraska federal jury awarded to the Beatrice Six and
