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Fourth District, Division 3 Reverses and Remands For Award of Additional Fees.      From our category “SLAPP,” one knows by now that winning defendants are entitled to a mandatory award of fees for winning an anti-SLAPP motion. (Click here for Wikipedia article on Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). The next case involves a situation in […]

  Unpublished Second District Decision So Held Last Year.       In Brandt v. Superior Court, 37 Cal.3d 813 (1985), the California Supreme Court determined that attorney’s fees were recoverable as damages to insureds for purposes of recovering the contractual benefits under insurance policies.      Are Brandt fees assignable (likely part of a settlement)? For those

  Marie Gryphon Suggests Tweaks To the English Rule For Possible Use in the U.S.      On December 2, 2008, we authored a post on Java Oil, Ltd. v. Sullivan, which explored the differences between the English Rule (losers pay attorneys' fees) and American Rule (each side bears own fees in the absence of a

One Involves DJ Samantha Ronson, and the Other Involves City College of San Francisco. Everyone knows that we are in the Holidays, with client meetings and office parties abounding (even if the economy is not like it was in years past). So, we will have some Holiday fun by reporting on two recent media stories

Plaintiffs’ Attorney May Seek $12 Million in Fees.      In a high profile case filed in Orange County Superior Court, the Orange County Register newspaper agreed to pay about $22 million in settlement to newspaper carriers claiming that they were employees rather than independent contractors. The settlement did not preclude the Register from claiming that

     Mike and Marc welcome Steve Mayer and The California Constitution to the Blogosphere.  We have added a sidebar link to Steve's new blawg.

           Mike and Marc are pleased to inform our readers that California Attorney’s Fees has now been linked to the ABA Blawg Directory, where blawg related categories include "trial & litigation", "attorney fees", "states", and "California".           We especially thank Sarah Randag, the ABA’s web producer, for pointing out to us that our RSS ("Really

“Equitable Apportionment” Doctrine To Be Applied on Remand.             We welcome personal injury practitioners to one of our first blogs in their substantive area of the law.             In Eby v. DeJong, Case No. A118498 (1st Dist., Div. 5 Sept. 26, 2008) (unpublished), plaintiff was driving a City pickup

Tail that Wags the Hog             Bratz dolls, it would appear, are material girls.              The September 10, 2008 Los Angeles Daily Journal leads with this story:  "Doll Case Legal Services Costing a Pretty Penny."  Jason W. Armstrong, the Daily Journal Staff Writer, reports, "[t]he combined legal fees