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Primarily news stories and digests that focus on legal fee disputes, both from a substantive perspective about how courts will interpret, but also focused on big firms and lawyers and figures embroiled in fee disputes.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 19, 2023
The Sixth District Court of Appeals also ruled it was error to award the defendant more than $58,000 in attorney fees and costs.
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By Daniel J. Siegel | October 19, 2023
Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 governs the types of fees attorneys can charge and outlines the way fee agreements must be tailored. The Pennsylvania Rule is modeled after ABA Model Rule 1.5.
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By Dan Packel | October 18, 2023
The firms are at odds because Quinn Emanuel partners Erika Morabito and Brittany Nelson began the contingency-based representation of LeClairRyan's bankruptcy trustee as partners at Foley & Lardner.
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By Dan Roe | October 17, 2023
X Corp. had argued Wachtell's method of obtaining a $70 million success fee qualified as equitable relief, triggering a carve-out in Wachtell's arbitration clause.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 13, 2023
The law firm's award of $83,509 for attorney fees was preserved, but not its bid to collect $117,689 for expenses.
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By Allison Dunn | October 13, 2023
"Throughout the entirety of this transaction, defendants Williams and A&G were acting solely as agents of Vetcomm," Senior U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. wrote. "Thus, even if Williams volunteered in the second email to notify Jones upon request to disburse the subject funds, such a modification would bind only Vetcomm, the principal, and not defendants Williams and A&G, the agents."
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By Michael A. Mora | October 13, 2023
Here, the attorney was awarded an hourly rate of $500.
4 minute read
By Allison Dunn | October 11, 2023
A federal judge in Massachusetts partially granted summary judgment to a plaintiff who alleged that her attorneys overbilled her after successfully representing her in an underlying $10 million premises liability action.
6 minute read
By Michael A. Mora | October 11, 2023
Here, the attorney was awarded an hourly rate of $500.
4 minute read
By Mason Lawlor | October 6, 2023
This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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