By Amanda Bronstad | October 30, 2019
In a Tuesday motion, lawyers from 13 firms said their fee request represented less than 20.4% of the $380.5 million cash fund and only 5.6% of the settlement when including the other benefits to the class.
By R. Robin McDonald | October 24, 2019
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg called the request premature because the case is still ongoing and no final judgment has been entered.
By Greg Land | June 25, 2019
The complaint said the firm and Atlanta partner James Leonard mishandled a lawsuit saying an insurer and a now-barred agent scammed a woman out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums for a policy she ultimately had to give up.
By R. Robin McDonald | April 22, 2019
The fight over $90,975 in legal fees comes after the results of their state House election were thrown out twice.
By Greg Land | January 16, 2019
Cheeley sued his former firm, Butler Wooten & Peak, to void a confidential arbitration award involving millions of dollars in fees the firm said it was due in the wake of Cheeley's departure in 2016.
By Greg Land | September 6, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall said he thought former Butler Wooten partner Robert Cheeley had an "uphill battle to set aside an arbitration award."
By Scott Graham | August 24, 2018
Although a jury found that Salt Lake Comic Con's trademark infringement wasn't willful, Judge Anthony Battaglia declared the case "exceptional."
By Greg Land | August 16, 2018
In a largely blacked-out petition, Robert Cheeley asked a Fulton judge to vacate an arbitration award in several fee disputes with his former firm, Butler Wooten & Peak.
By Erin Mulvaney | July 24, 2018
"Although this particular fee award may not be of great importance, the standard of review for all fee awards assuredly is,” Jones Day's Eric Dreiband told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The firm claims a panel misapplied the applicable legal standard, and letting the ruling stand will invite "protracted fee litigation."
By R. Robin McDonald | June 13, 2018
A three-judge panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a Fulton County trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit against Dentons that claimed the firm unjustly enriched itself by accepting more than $1.3 million in legal fees from the trusts of Atlanta industrialist and philanthropist Walter Bunzl to defend the embattled trustee against a suit by Bunzl heirs.
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